Disclaimer: I might have done things in not the best way - I'll happily
accept correction.
Here is some information about building on msys2, the rewrite of msys,
plus a proposal for a couple of tiny changes to support it.
The simplest way to install msys2 is via the chocolatey package manager
(See <https://chocolatey.org/docs/installation>)
choco install -y msys2
Alternatively, download the installer and run it.
Once that's done, fire up an Msys2 shell and use its package manager to
install the required tools:
pacman -S msys/bison \
msys/flex \
msys/make \
msys/git \
msys/perl \
msys/ccache \
msys/diffutils \
mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \
mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
If you want to run a buildfarm animal, there are a few other things you
will also need:
pacman -S msys/perl-libwww msys/perl-Crypt-SSLeay msys/tar
If you want to run TAP tests, you need to install IPC::Run somewhere and
point PERL5LIB at it. There is no pacman package available. You will
also need:
pacman -S msys/perl-Test-Simple msys/perl-Test-Harness
And there are a few very useful things it makes sense to install:
pacman -S msys/vim msys/patch
Pre-build setup:
For 64 bit builds:
unset MSYSTEM_CHOST # or export MSYSTEM_CHOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
export MSYSTEM=MINGW64
export PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH
For 32 bit builds
unset MSYSTEM_CHOST # or export MSYSTEM_CHOST=i686-w64-mingw32
export MSYSTEM=MINGW32
export PATH=/mingw32/bin:$PATH
build:
./configure --with-template=win32 ...
Things that fail:
* configure without a tamplate - there is a simple fix for this,
included in the attached patch
* pg_upgrade test - I was clearly not thorough enough with my fix in
commit 608a71095. It occurred to me that rather than using `uname
-s` and putting "MINGW*|MSYS*" everywhere, it might be better to
use the "host_os" value from Makefile.global. The patch does it that
way, falling back to uname if necessary. But I'm with doing it the
other way of people prefer. Yes, I know I should use backticks
instead of $().
* the pg_dump TAP test 010_dump_connstr.pl chokes badly on $dname3 and
$dbname4. The commands complain about too many arguments. It seems
weird because jacana is doing this just fine.
* 32 bit builds only fail the circle regression test like this:
***
C:/tools/msys64/home/Administrator/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/circle.out
2018-10-03 18:52:44.137775400 +0000
---
C:/tools/msys64/home/administrator/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/regress/results/circle.out
2018-10-05 20:59:45.424014300 +0000
***************
*** 109,116 ****
WHERE (c1.f1 < c2.f1) AND ((c1.f1 <-> c2.f1) > 0)
ORDER BY distance, area(c1.f1), area(c2.f1);
five | one | two | distance
! ------+----------------+----------------+------------------
! | <(3,5),0> | <(1,2),3> | 0.60555127546399
| <(3,5),0> | <(5,1),3> | 1.47213595499958
| <(100,200),10> | <(100,1),115> | 74
| <(100,200),10> | <(1,2),100> | 111.370729772479
--- 109,116 ----
WHERE (c1.f1 < c2.f1) AND ((c1.f1 <-> c2.f1) > 0)
ORDER BY distance, area(c1.f1), area(c2.f1);
five | one | two | distance
! ------+----------------+----------------+-------------------
! | <(3,5),0> | <(1,2),3> | 0.605551275463989
| <(3,5),0> | <(5,1),3> | 1.47213595499958
| <(100,200),10> | <(100,1),115> | 74
| <(100,200),10> | <(1,2),100> | 111.370729772479
cheers
andrew
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0448c6b..a0a6989 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2945,6 +2945,7 @@ dragonfly*) template=netbsd ;;
linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu)
template=linux ;;
mingw*) template=win32 ;;
+ msys*) template=win32 ;;
netbsd*) template=netbsd ;;
openbsd*) template=openbsd ;;
solaris*) template=solaris ;;
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 23b5bb8..11be746 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ dragonfly*) template=netbsd ;;
linux*|gnu*|k*bsd*-gnu)
template=linux ;;
mingw*) template=win32 ;;
+ msys*) template=win32 ;;
netbsd*) template=netbsd ;;
openbsd*) template=openbsd ;;
solaris*) template=solaris ;;
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/Makefile b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/Makefile
index adb0d5d..8b76650 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/Makefile
+++ b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ clean distclean maintainer-clean:
pg_upgrade_dump_*.custom pg_upgrade_*.log
check: test.sh all
- MAKE=$(MAKE) bindir=$(bindir) libdir=$(libdir) EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS="$(EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS)" $(SHELL) $< --install
+ MAKE=$(MAKE) bindir=$(bindir) libdir=$(libdir) EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS="$(EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS)" $(SHELL) HOST_OS=$(host_os) $< --install
# installcheck is not supported because there's no meaningful way to test
# pg_upgrade against a single already-running server
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh
index f895663..28f8a2e 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh
+++ b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh
@@ -30,11 +30,12 @@ standard_initdb() {
../../test/regress/pg_regress --config-auth "$PGDATA"
}
-# Establish how the server will listen for connections
-testhost=`uname -s`
+# Establish how the server will listen for connections.
+# Fall back to uname if necessary
+testhost=${HOST_OS:-$(uname -s)}
case $testhost in
- MINGW*|MSYS*)
+ MINGW*)
LISTEN_ADDRESSES="localhost"
PGHOST=localhost
;;
