Thanks Bill! Do you have a sample meson command for building that you could share?
Thanks, Mark From: Bill Smith <bill.sm...@enterprisedb.com> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 4:11 PM To: Mark Hill <mark.h...@sas.com> Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0 EXTERNAL On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Mark Hill <mark.h...@sas.com<mailto:mark.h...@sas.com>> wrote: I just downloaded the Postgresql 17.0 and the extracted directory postgresql-17.0/src/tools does not contain the “msvc” directory as it has since I’ve been building Postgres 12, 14, and 16. How am I supposed to build PostgreSQL for Windows now? I’m not sure what msvc_gendef.pl does. How do we build Postgres for Windows using Visual Studio? You’ll want to use meson to build PG. See the docs here: [cid:image001.png@01DB23D4.03B42C60] 17.7. Platform-Specific Notes<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html%23INSTALLATION-NOTES-VISUAL-STUDIO___.YzJ1OnNhc2luc3RpdHV0ZTpjOm86OWJiYTkyOGQ4NDg2ZWRhYjhlMjJkNGUzOGNmNjgxYjc6NzowNDYzOmRlNGQ2ZGI4MWYwNTVhNDUzM2Q4ZTc2NWYwZGJlMzQyMGI1YjE3ZDc4MWJjOTY2YTE0ZjAwMTg1ZDE0NjYxOWM6aDpUOk4> postgresql.org<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html%23INSTALLATION-NOTES-VISUAL-STUDIO___.YzJ1OnNhc2luc3RpdHV0ZTpjOm86OWJiYTkyOGQ4NDg2ZWRhYjhlMjJkNGUzOGNmNjgxYjc6Nzo3ZjViOmI0YTgyMGRhMTA2MGY4NDE0OTcyOGQxMWU0MDA4MmE1ZWMzMjg1YjM4YTY2ZjBhZTQwMmZjOGYzNTE1MzNjYzU6aDpUOk4> Thanks, Mark
