Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-05-10 Thread Brar Piening
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:07:52 +0200, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:04:37 +0200, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: It's not ready yet but I'm prepared to get back to it as soon as there's some serious interest. I've updated the patch once again to reflect the fixes to

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-05-10 Thread Brar Piening
On Wed, 11 May 2011 06:15:08 +0200, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: I've updated the patch once again to reflect the fixes to pgbison.bat in my alternative pgbison.pl Actually not pgbison but pgflex -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 00:14, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:45:25 +0200, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: So per your experience, all we really need to do is to define what the *max* level of the Windows SDK we can use is, to make sure people don't get the

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of vie abr 15 10:35:44 -0300 2011: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 00:14, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: The problem with VS 2010 (and the associated Windows SDK's) is the fact that MS dropped VCBuild.exe and now uses MSBuild.exe to build Visual C++ Projects

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 15:57, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of vie abr 15 10:35:44 -0300 2011: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 00:14, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: The problem with VS 2010 (and the associated Windows SDK's) is the fact

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 22:36, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:51:57 -0400, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: that's in the SDK? If not, I still think that should be our primary option - I certainly don't see how it's obsolete. (and you can, afaics, still get

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-13 Thread Brar Piening
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:45:25 +0200, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: So per your experience, all we really need to do is to define what the *max* level of the Windows SDK we can use is, to make sure people don't get the VS2010 compiler instead? (And adding the note that VS2010 isn't

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 22:16, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2011-04-07 at 16:20 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It sure would be nice if someone would write a doc patch, or at least a wiki page, explaining all the permutations here...  I get the impression it's not that hard to

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/12/2011 08:23 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 22:16, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2011-04-07 at 16:20 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It sure would be nice if someone would write a doc patch, or at least a wiki page, explaining all the permutations

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 14:51, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 04/12/2011 08:23 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 22:16, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net  wrote: On tor, 2011-04-07 at 16:20 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It sure would be nice if someone would write

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-12 Thread Brar Piening
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:51:57 -0400, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: that's in the SDK? If not, I still think that should be our primary option - I certainly don't see how it's obsolete. (and you can, afaics, still get the platform sdk with the correct version of the compiler

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-04-07 at 16:20 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It sure would be nice if someone would write a doc patch, or at least a wiki page, explaining all the permutations here... I get the impression it's not that hard to set up if you are reasonable comfortable working in a Windows

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-07 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net  wrote:      * I have some doubts about whether the SDK is at all needed or        whether it would suffice by

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Another issue: ...\src\tools\msvcinstall foo bar bar== was unexpected at this time. This makes it seemingly impossible to install into a standard location such as under C:\Program Files\. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-04-07 at 09:26 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net wrote: * I have some doubts about whether the

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 22:11, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2011-04-07 at 09:26 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2011-04-07 at 09:26 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2011-04-03 at 16:04 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: The documentation appears to claim that the Platform/Windows SDK without any Visual Studio should be enough. Is there also an upper limit on the supported SDK version then? It certainly used to be enough, so I guess if they have

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote:      * I have some doubts about whether the SDK is at all needed or        whether it would suffice by itself.  I went with Visual Studio        Express 2008. The SDK is needed with 2008 Express, but not the non-express

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net wrote: * I have some doubts about whether the SDK is at all needed or whether it would suffice by itself. I went with Visual Studio Express 2008. The SDK is needed

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Brar Piening
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:27:22 +0300, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I got it to build now. Here are is a list of notes that would make life easier for future generations: You might also want to have a look at my VS2010 patch as it already touches some of those issues.

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Brar Piening
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:04:37 +0200, Brar Piening b...@gmx.de wrote: It's not ready yet but I'm prepared to get back to it as soon as there's some serious interest. I've rebased the patch in case somebody wants to try it. http://www.piening.info/VS2010v5.patch Regards, Brar -- Sent via

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/06/2011 01:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 04/06/2011 01:34 PM, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net wrote: * I have some doubts about whether the SDK is at all needed or whether it would suffice by itself. I went with

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-04-03 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:10, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2011-03-31 at 16:00 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 03/31/2011 03:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come from? Not that I know of. But VS 2008

[HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-03-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I was trying to build the Windows msvc build for the first time and ran into some issues. The documentation talks about obtaining and using the Platform SDK. I understand that this is nowadays called the Windows SDK. Searching for the former on the Microsoft download site doesn't offer anything

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-03-31 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 03/31/2011 03:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come from? Not that I know of. But VS 2008 is, and should be readily available. In fact, I recently made patches to allow it to to be used to build all the live branches.

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-03-31 Thread Dave Page
No, 2010 is not yet supported, though I beleive some initial work was done. I'm intending to work on it for 9.2. On 3/31/11, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I was trying to build the Windows msvc build for the first time and ran into some issues. The documentation talks about

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-03-31 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:00, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote: On 03/31/2011 03:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come from? Not that I know of. But VS 2008 is, and should be readily available. In fact, I recently

Re: [HACKERS] Windows build issues

2011-03-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-03-31 at 16:00 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: On 03/31/2011 03:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come from? Not that I know of. But VS 2008 is, and should be readily available. In fact, I recently made