Re: Postgres Win32 build broken?

> On Sep 1, 2021, at 8:01 PM, Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 
>> Em qua., 1 de set. de 2021 às 19:49, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> escreveu:
>>
>> On 9/1/21 4:00 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> > On 8/31/21 9:52 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 07:49:40PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>> >>> I'm not a perl specialist and it seems to me that the Win32 build is broken.
>> >>> The Win32 build is still important because of the 32-bit clients still in
>> >>> use.
>> >>> I'm investigating the problem.
>> >> Being able to see the command you are using for build.pl, your
>> >> buildenv.pl and/or config.pl, as well as your build dependencies
>> >> should help to know what's wrong.
>> >>
>> >> MSVC builds are tested by various buildfarm members on a daily basis,
>> >> and nothing is red. I also have a x86 and x64 configuration with
>> >> VS2015 that prove to work as of HEAD at de1d4fe, FWIW. Now, by
>> >> experience, one could say that N Windows PG developpers finish with at
>> >> least (N+1) different environments. Basically Simon Riggs's theorem
>> >> applied to Windows development..
>> >
>> >
>> > I am seeing the same result as Ranier using VS2017 and VS 2019.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> But not with VS2013. If you need to build 32 bit client libraries, using
>> an older VS release is probably your best bet.
> Thanks Andrew, but I finally got a workaround for the problem.
> set MSBFLAGS=/p:Platform="Win32"
>
> Now Postgres builds fine in 32 bits with the latest msvc (2019).
> Is it worth documenting this?

Better to try to automate it.

Cheers

Andrew