Re: FW: Building Postgres 17.0 with meson

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 16:01, Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Nov 2024 at 2:55PM(EST), Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com > wrote:
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> > With openssl, zlib, and icu enabled in the setup, the ninja build fails trying to link src/backend/postgres.exe.
> > There are 40 unresolved external symbol errors (see below.) I checked a few of the symbols and they appear
> > in the Postgres source without the "_72" text on the end. Is it getting "72" from the version of icu4c I'm using,
> > 72.1? Anyone know how to prevent these errors?
>
> I'm including the meson-log.txt file for the build I reported in my previous post for more information.

I don't know the cause of the errors you mentioned. But I know that
there is a repository from Dave Page, which builds some dependencies
on Windows and compiles Postgres using meson [1]. I guess this may
help you.

[1] https://github.com/dpage/winpgbuild
[1.1] https://github.com/dpage/winpgbuild/actions

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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft