Re: On non-Windows, hard depend on uselocale(3)

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:32:31AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I realised that there is another aspect to this: it must be impossible
> to build PostgreSQL with the original MinGW/MSYS project by now. I
> don't understand the history of the MinGW/MinGW-w64 fork, but if
> they're both still live projects out there adding to the general
> confusion about the frankenwindows multiverse, we should clarify our
> situation. As far as I know, we're only testing the second thing, and
> only the second thing can use UCRT, and only the second thing is a
> viable alternative toolchain for software that is primarily targeting
> current Visual Studio, which I think is something we can say about our
> project. Right?

FWIW, I am not seeing any advantage in mentioning MinGW at all at this
stage, just extra maintenance burden. As far as I know, MinGW is a
gcc port that has only a 32b implementation. MinGW-w64 is built on
top of it and it includes *both* 32b and 64b implementations, as you
say, with more WIN32 APIs than the former.

So +1 to simplify a bit that stuff.
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Michael