Re: [PATCH] PostgreSQL fails to build with 32bit MinGW-w64

On 12/03/2011 09:59 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 15:49, NISHIYAMA Tomoaki
> <tomoakin(at)staff(dot)kanazawa-u(dot)ac(dot)jp> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Have you verified if tihs affects _MSC_VER< 1400? Suddently that
>>> branch would care about HAVE_CRTDEFS_H, and I'm not sure if that's
>>> something we need to worry about.
>>
>> I have no MSVC. In that sense it is not verified in fact, and I hope
>> those who knows well would kindly comment on it.
>>
>> However, it appears that pg_config.h is not created through
>> configure, but just copied from pg_config.h.win32 in those
>> compilers and thus HAVE_CRTDEFS_H will not be defined.
>> So, I think this code fragment will not be enabled in
>> _MSC_VER< 1400
> Hmm, true. Unless HAVE_CRTDEFS_H is defined by the sytem, which it
> likely isn't - I was confusing it with the kind of defines that MSVC
> tends to stick in their own headerfiles, and thought that's what you
> were testing for.
>

Yes, but there's a deal more work to do here. This whole thing is
falling over in my build environment (64 bit Windows 7, MinGW/MSys, the
machine that runs pitta on the buildfarm.)

This is a long way from a done deal.

cheers

andrew