On 04/30/2014 07:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
But why can't you install Cygwin and the free Microsoft Express/SDK compilers and do a native build.
I finally got it to work. When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to specify --with-target-bits=32, otherwise building with Visual Studio Express will fail. It's obvious in retrospect, but somewhat difficult to figure out, considering that ./configure explicitly ignores the failure to locate the 64-bit environment variables file from Visual Studio.
All in all, it's relatively painless, so I will stick with that for the time being. (I'm not actually eager to spend time on Windows-only enhancements, anyway.)
Doing that you could be sure that you really test what others (i.e. especially Oracle) will get.
See my reply to Ivan. I have no illusions that my non-cross environments are very close to anything anyone uses to build supported binaries. At some level, this sucks, but that's life with heavily patched or proprietary downstreams.
-- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
