Re: Postgres Win32 build broken?

On 9/1/21 8:01 PM, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> Em qua., 1 de set. de 2021 às 19:49, Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net <mailto: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
> <http://build.pl>, your
> >> buildenv.pl <http://buildenv.pl> and/or config.pl
> <http://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?
>
>

I think we should be able to detect this and do it automatically in
src/tools/msvc/build.pl, or possibly in the project files.

cheers

andrew

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