On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 11:58, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
> > On 2023-04-11 Tu 04:05, Dave Page wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 08:09, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:27 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 2023-04-10 19:55:35 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> > > Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - >> e.g. >> > > pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump >> etc) >> > > that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system >> (even the >> > > build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible). >> > > >> > > Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, >> and I >> > > suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing. >> > >> > Do you have a link to the code for that, if it's open? Just to get an >> > impression for how hard it'd be to switch over? >> >> >> The pgadmin docs/readme refers to >> https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/tree/master/pkg/win32 >> >> It clearly doesn't have the full automation stuff, but appears to have >> the parts about building the postgres dependency. >> > > Yeah, that's essentially the manual process, though I haven't tested it in > a while. The Ansible stuff is not currently public. I suspect (or rather, > hope) that we can pull in all the additional packages required using > Chocolatey which shouldn't be too onerous. > > Probably my main concern is that the Meson build can use the same version > of the VC++ compiler that we use (v14), which is carefully matched for > compatibility with all the various components, just in case anything passes > CRT pointers around. Python is the one thing we don't build ourselves on > Windows and the process will build modules like gssapi and psycopg (which > links with libpq of course), so we're basically following what they use. > > > > For meson you just need to to "pip install meson ninja" in your python > distro and you should be good to go (they will be installed in python's > Scripts directory). Don't use chocolatey to install meson/ninja - I ran > into issues doing that. > > AFAICT meson will use whatever version of VC you have installed, although > I have only been testing with VC2019. > OK, that sounds easy enough then (famous last words!) Thanks! -- Dave Page Blog: https://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
