Gregory Stark wrote:
We could use autoconf on win32 using cygwin utilities for things like sh and awk. Just because we use those tools doesn't mean we have to use a cygwin compiler or linker to actually do the build.
Making Cygwin a build time requirement for using MSVC is something we seriously wish to avoid.
And we could always ship the preconfigured pg_config.h from a normal Windows machine with cygwin installed since they're all the same (in theory). I think it has more to do with the build-time tools. We have Makefile rules that use awk or sed in them and those wouldn't work unless you have cygwin installed when building. And in any case we want to use MSVC project files and MSVC's make-equivalent to actually drive the build which kind of rules out using the Makefile rules as-is.
Quite so. CMake outputs MSVC Project files, as I understand it. If you know of another cross-platform build tool that will do that then speak up.
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