Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles
Date: 2017-04-07 15:15:29
Message-ID: 20170407151529.zxobxky3p3dwq2h5@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-04-07 13:00:39 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Insurmountable, probably not. The big difference is that you don't need
> *any* dependencies to build a libpq using win32.mak, but you need many of
> them (to start with, perl...) to build using the built-in one. For people
> who want to build it, it certainly save a lot more than "a few minutes".
> For somebody who doesn't have ready scripts it takes a *long* time to set
> up a build environment to do our regular msvc builds.

For a useful libpq you actually need a good chunk of dependencies,
including openssl.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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