Re: allow running parts of src/tools/msvc/ under not Windows

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: allow running parts of src/tools/msvc/ under not Windows
Date: 2020-02-13 12:04:29
Message-ID: 20200213120429.GN1520@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When making build system changes that risk breaking the MSVC build system,
> it's useful to be able to run the part of the MSVC build tools that read the
> makefiles and produce the project files under a not-Windows platform. This
> part does not really depend on anything particular to Windows, so it's
> possible in principle. There are some minor dependencies on Windows,
> however, that need to be worked around. I have had some local hacks for that
> for a while, and I took a moment to clean them up and make them presentable,
> so here they are. Interested?
>
> To test, apply the patch and run perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .

$ perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .
Warning: no config.pl found, using default.
Unable to determine Visual Studio version: The nmake command wasn't
found. at /home/ioltas/git/postgres/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm line 92.
Is that the expected result?
--
Michael

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