On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 15:14, Ron Mayer <rm...@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 05:22, Ron Mayer <rm...@cheapcomplexdevices.com> >> wrote: >>> David E. Wheeler wrote: >>>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Dave Page wrote: >>>>> No, I'm suggesting the mechanism needs to support source and binary >>>>> distribution. For most *nix users, source will be fine. For Windows >>>>> binaries are required. >>>> I would love to follow what Strawberry Perl has done to solve this >>>> problem. In 2.0. >>> +1. They did a nice job. >> >> For those of us who have no idea what Strawberry Perl did (other than >> not shipping Microsoft compatible libraries, and is thus useless for >> PostgreSQL), could someone explain it? >> > > As far as I can tell they shipped the minimal set of tools that they needed > to build extensions rather than distribute binaries. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Perl > I don't know the details, but it works smoothly for them.
Right. They are msys compatible, not Microsoft compatible. And msys uses non-Windows-standard format of the import libraries. and the import libraries are needed for people to link to the interpreter, like pl/perl. Also a quick re-check shows that there appears to be no 64-bit version available. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
