Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: 2023-04-11 07:09:41
Message-ID: CABUevEzX1xVDS=tV_MTNcPhJZXZSvXCZVBLp_gv=_kpPPhE-BQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:27 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-04-10 19:55:35 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - e.g.
> > pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump etc)
> > that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system (even the
> > build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible).
> >
> > Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, and I
> > suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing.
>
> Do you have a link to the code for that, if it's open? Just to get an
> impression for how hard it'd be to switch over?

The pgadmin docs/readme refers to
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/tree/master/pkg/win32

It clearly doesn't have the full automation stuff, but appears to have
the parts about building the postgres dependency.

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