Re: pgsql-server/src backend/bootstrap/Tag: backen ...

Bruce Momjian writes:

> > The whole MinGW thing is overhyped. Install Cygwin and specify gcc
> > -mno-cygwin when you compile. That gets you the same compilation
> > environment that MinGW provides, but you can use all the Unix tools.
>
> But we still need to do the work of getting this to work without
> compatiblity libraries.

That's what I'm saying: -mno-cygwin turns off all the Cygwin compatiblity
libraries and compiles it just like MinGW. It's the same code.

> > Yeah, but if there is supposedly no cvs available in that environment,
> > what is the point of this exercise? They're going to have to download a
> > pre-cooked tarball anyway.
>
> True. They could CVS from somewhere else and copy it to Win32, but they
> would need flex/bison on Win32 for the compile. It just seemed two less
> things for people to do.

If they get cvs from "somewhere", why can't they get flex and bison from
the same place?

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