| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: About CMake |
| Date: | 2008-12-29 22:59:11 |
| Message-ID: | 4959563F.4080709@dunslane.net |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> We could use autoconf on win32 using cygwin utilities for things like sh and
> awk. Just because we use those tools doesn't mean we have to use a cygwin
> compiler or linker to actually do the build.
>
Making Cygwin a build time requirement for using MSVC is something we
seriously wish to avoid.
> And we could always ship the preconfigured pg_config.h from a normal Windows
> machine with cygwin installed since they're all the same (in theory).
>
> I think it has more to do with the build-time tools. We have Makefile rules
> that use awk or sed in them and those wouldn't work unless you have cygwin
> installed when building. And in any case we want to use MSVC project files and
> MSVC's make-equivalent to actually drive the build which kind of rules out
> using the Makefile rules as-is.
>
>
Quite so. CMake outputs MSVC Project files, as I understand it. If you
know of another cross-platform build tool that will do that then speak up.
cheers
andrew
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