2015-05-29 9:42 GMT+02:00 Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > > 1. VS requires relatively new MS Windows - problem for people with Ms > Win 7 > > and older > > Really, I use Win 2k8 stuff and Win7 quite a lot. > On Win 7 you have to search and install now unsupported VS EE 2010. VS Express 2013 requires Win 8. And finding VS 2010 is not simply - I had to take install files from some private sources. > > 2. After installation you have to find and apply some critical fixes - > some > > is bad documented. > > Example? Perhaps we could improve the docs then. > It was a VS 2010 related issues - not PostgreSQL issues > > > I have a few customers on MS Win - nobody was able to compile extension > > there - and I had lot of trables - (but I worked with MSVC ten years ago) > > Well, FWIW, I have some extensions compiled on Windows using MSVC > modules with stuff like perl -I src/tools/msvc build.pl that are out > of the vanilla scripts and it works... The script is rather simple > even if a bit grotty. > see steps from http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/68644/problems-while-building-plpgsql-check-on-windows It is not hard for Windows C++ developer, It is little bit messy for Linux developer, and it is out of possibility usual Windows Visual Basic (and similar level) developers. > -- > Michael >
