-----Original Message----- From: "Chuck McDevitt"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05/05/06 18:01:49 To: "Magnus Hagander"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gurjeet Singh"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org"<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio &
> I don't see any reason we'd want to target VC++6.0. The runtimes ship with every platform we support, unlike v7 or v8. Regards, Dave -----Unmodified Original Message----- VC++6.0 isn't a very good compiler and it's not very compatible with gcc, while Visual Studio 2005 compiler is much more compatible and has a better optimizer. Plus, VC++6.0 had a closed "proprietary" data format for .dsp and .dsw files, while the current Visual Studio uses a standard XML format. Finally, Microsoft gives away (as in free, no cost) Visual C++ Express edition, which includes the current compiler. I don't see any reason we'd want to target VC++6.0. P.s. With the current Visual Studio, it's easy to add Bison and Flex custom rules, so that it automatically calls them for .y and .l files. -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:42 AM To: Gurjeet Singh; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chuck McDevitt Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio & MSVC > Hi William(uniware), Chuck and Hackers, > > I have been interested in doing complete PGSQL > development in MSVC for a long time now. With reference to > one of Chuck's mails to > -hackers-win32 with the same subject, you said that you were > able to successfully compile PG 8.1 with some minor tweaks. > > Also, William has 'vcproject' hosted on pgfoundry, I > downloaded it, and tried compiling > vcproject\msvc\postgres\postgres.dsw on > VC++6.0. It failed miserably with over 1000 errors. I am sure there's > some tweaks needed here too!!! Yes. There is a patch pending on -patches which fix almost all of these in HEAD. (There are a few tiny things related to perl and NLS that aren't included in it ATM. And I'm just assuming you're seeing the same problems as I was but I didn't base my work off vcproject). I'm also working on a buildscript to convert the Makefiles to visual c++ project files, but that's not quite done yet. The idea with this work is to have the stuff as integrated as possible with main CVS, so the maintenance will be as low as possible - unlike the vcproject project which has been focusing on keeping a separate build environment maintained. The target is VC++ 2003 and 2005 ATM, but it should just be a matter of a different output format for VC 6.0 I guess. You will still need things like bison and flex if you want to build off cvs, of course - there is no builtin support for that in VC++. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
