Re: Building with Visual C++

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Chuck McDevitt" <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Building with Visual C++
Date: 2006-04-25 13:41:43
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA352FF@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >>> We'll need a VC buildfarm member in place to catch us anytime we
> >>> change the Makefiles in a way that the script doesn't understand.
> >>
> >> Not a problem - Snake has VC++ 6, 2003 and 2005 installed.
>
> > Y'know I say that, but thinking about it I imagine the buildfarm is
> > tied well and truly into the GNU build system - running configure,
> > make, regression tests etc. We'd need to talk Andrew into modifying
> > the code to handle the different build procedure, and
> figure out how
> > to run the regression tests (prolly still need mingw for
> that - though
> > possibly SFU/Interix would work).
>
> Yeah, I had just started to wonder about that when your mail arrived.
> It'll need to happen if we want to say that "VC is supported"
> with a straight face, but I can easily imagine that it'll
> require nontrivial work.
>
> I don't mind though if running the regression tests requires
> mingw; that's not an essential step unless you're a developer.

The tests I run against it now are run from MingW. And naturally, it
only works with "installcheck" and not "check", but that's to be
expected..

//Magnus

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