Re: Visual Studio 2013 build

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
> On 12/02/2013 05:12 PM, Brar Piening wrote:
>
>> Hackers,
>> the attached patch enables Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 as additional
>> build environment.
>> After some tweaking (VS now has got its own rint and a few macro
>> definitions that were previously missing) the build runs without errors or
>> warnings and the product passes the regression tests.
>> I didn't test any special configurations though.
>> I'm using full Visual Studio 2013 actually so I can't conform that
>> everything still works with Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
>> Desktop, but there are no documented limitations that make any problems
>> foreseeable.
>> I will add it to the CommitFest 2014-01 so that there is time for testing
>> and tweaking.
>>
>>
>
> OK, I have tested this out with the development branch and Visual Studio
> Express 2013 for Windows Desktop, on Windows Server 2008 R2-SP1 64 bit.
> With a slight adjustment to make the patch apply it works fine.
>
> How far back should we go? About a year ago when we did this we applied it
> for 9.2 (then the latest stable release) and 9.3dev.
>

Seems reasonable to follow the same pattern, and apply it for 9.3 stable
and 9.4dev. The argument being that it's a new build env, and it's not
likely that people are going to use that t o build very old versions of
postgres.

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