Re: Windows build issues

No, 2010 is not yet supported, though I beleive some initial work was done.

I'm intending to work on it for 9.2.

On 3/31/11, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> I was trying to build the Windows msvc build for the first time and ran
> into some issues.
>
> The documentation talks about obtaining and using the "Platform SDK". I
> understand that this is nowadays called the "Windows SDK". Searching
> for the former on the Microsoft download site doesn't offer anything
> recent. If my understanding is correct, the documentation should be
> updated.
>
> The file src/tools/msvc/README contains some information that apparently
> augments the build instructions in the main documentation. It talks
> about Visual Studio 2005, which is probably outdated, and the section
> "Notes about Visual Studio Express" talks about some files that my
> installation doesn't contain, so probably also outdated. That last
> section should probably be moved into the main documentation, if it's
> still relevant.
>
> Between the main documentation and that README, it also becomes less
> clear whether the SDK or Visual Studio Express or both are needed.
>
> Then the real issue. The build.pl tries to call "vcbuild", which
> neither the SDK version 7.1 nor the Visual Studio Express 2010 contain
> anywhere. (There is a vcbuild.dll, but that's it.) Some web searching
> suggests that vcbuild.exe might have been renamed in the Visual Studio
> 2010 version. I don't see any buildfarm coverage of that version.
>
> So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come
> from?
>
>
>
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