Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Build with Visual Studio & MSVC

Dave Page wrote:

>
> Just for fun, I went through PostgreSQL 8.1 and did a complete
> build using Microsoft’s C and the latest Visual Studio.
>
> With a few minor tweaks, everything compiled with no errors.
>
> My assumption is that because PostgreSQL is a UNIX/Linux-centric
> project (and gcc/gdb centric), this really isn’t of much interest
> to anyone.
>
> So other than this e-mail, I don’t plan to do anything with this
> except for my own amusement.
>
> If I’m wrong, and there is some real interest in supporting MSVC,
> let me know, and I’ll put some work into cleaning it up and making
> patches out of it, etc.
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> We discussed this again on list only the other day in fact! Basically
> we're not particulalry interested in supporting VS prject files in
> place of gmake/autoconf, purely because they will undoubtedly cause
> maintenance headaches as the majority of our developers don't have
> Windows boxes, let alone a copy of Visual Studio.
>
> However, if you need something to keep yourself amused (unless I can
> persuade you to come help out with psqlODBC :-) ), we would be
> interested in patches that allow us to use Microsoft's compiler as an
> alternative to gcc.
>
> It's interesting to know it built fairly easily though...
>

There is also a pgfoundry project for maintaining Visual Studio project
files. see http://pgfoundry.org/projects/vcproject/

cheers

andrew