On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 10:32:31AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote: > I realised that there is another aspect to this: it must be impossible > to build PostgreSQL with the original MinGW/MSYS project by now. I > don't understand the history of the MinGW/MinGW-w64 fork, but if > they're both still live projects out there adding to the general > confusion about the frankenwindows multiverse, we should clarify our > situation. As far as I know, we're only testing the second thing, and > only the second thing can use UCRT, and only the second thing is a > viable alternative toolchain for software that is primarily targeting > current Visual Studio, which I think is something we can say about our > project. Right?
FWIW, I am not seeing any advantage in mentioning MinGW at all at this stage, just extra maintenance burden. As far as I know, MinGW is a gcc port that has only a 32b implementation. MinGW-w64 is built on top of it and it includes *both* 32b and 64b implementations, as you say, with more WIN32 APIs than the former. So +1 to simplify a bit that stuff. -- Michael
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