Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > Bruce Momjian kirjutas K, 06.11.2002 kell 08:19: > > > I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to > > > Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged > > > patch that can be applied to 7.4. > > > > Great! > > > > > Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that. I > > > will post patches that deal with specific portability issues, like > > > fork/exec and path separator handling, and once reviewed, apply them to > > > the main CVS tree for 7.4. > > > > What C compiler will you be working with ? > > > > I hope that at least MingW should be supported ? > > Actually, I will be doing all the coding on BSD/OS. I am more merging > patches than actual coding, though. This will guarantee that the > patches will not affect the Unix platforms. I will need help from > others to check the various Win32 compilers.
I was wondering about that. How will you be able to verify that you got a Win32 port that at least compiles, if you're merging two different Win32 approaches into the code on BSD? I don't expect that to work at all. To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it. Our port is a real 100% pure Win32 one without any portability crap like cygwin. I don't think that's a big problem, since the binary results of a MS VC compile are redistributable AFAIK. And you'd need VC++ only if you want to do backend development under Windows, and who want's that (Katie for sure, but that's another story ;-P ) Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
