Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Now, I have produced two patches:
> > - 0001-Support-for-VS-2015-locale-hack.patch, which makes use of
> > __crt_locale_data_public in ucrt/corecrt.h. This is definitely an ugly
> > hack, though I am coming to think that this may be the approach that
> > would us the less harm, and that's closer to what is done for VS 2012
> > and 2013.
> > - 0001-Support-for-VS-2015-getlocaleinfoex.patch, which make use of
> > GetLocaleInfoEx, this requires us to lower a bit the support grid for
> > Windows, basically that's throwing support for XP if compilation is
> > done with VS 2015.
> > Based on my tests, both are working with short and long local names,
> > testing via initdb --locale.
>
> The first patch is actually not what I wanted to send. Here are the
> correct ones...

This thread seems to have stalled. I thought we were going to consider
these patches for 9.6. Should we simply push them to see what the
buildfarm thinks? Has anyone other than Michael actually tested it in
VS2015?

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