Re: Continuous integration on Windows?

On 10/11/2017 11:04 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
> I don't use Windows myself, but I'd rather avoid submitting patches
> that fail to build, build with horrible warnings or blow up on that
> fine operating system. I think it would be neat to be able to have
> experimental branches of PostgreSQL built and tested on Windows
> automatically just by pushing them to a watched public git repo. Just
> like Travis CI and several others do for the major GNU/Linux distros,
> it seems there is at least one Windows-based CI company that
> generously offers free testing to open source projects:
> https://www.appveyor.com (hat tip to Ilmari for the pointer). I
> wonder... has anyone here with Microsoft know-how ever tried to
> produce an appveyor.yml file that would do a MSVC build and
> check-world?
>

Interesting.

I'm taking a look.

A couple of things not in their pre-built images that we'll need are
flex and bison. We might be able to overcome that with chocolatey, which
is installed, haven't tested yet.

getting a working appveyor.yml will take a little while, though.

cheers

andrew

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