Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
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

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
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

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
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

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
You mean they have a tool that parses GNU Makefiles and generate VC project files? Sure, that might be interesting. I've seen I think two others, and tried, but they fell over badly because the pg build system was too complicated. But I beleive I'm still allowed to loko at GPL stuff and get ideas

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Hiroshi Saito
- Original Message - From: Magnus Hagander 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

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:50:38AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: You mean they have a tool that parses GNU Makefiles and generate VC project files? Sure, that might be interesting. I've seen I think two others, and tried, but they fell over badly because the pg build system was too

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
You mean they have a tool that parses GNU Makefiles and generate VC project files? Sure, that might be interesting. I've seen I think two others, and tried, but they fell over badly because the pg build system was too complicated. But I beleive I'm still allowed to loko at GPL

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
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

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-04 Thread Gurjeet Singh
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.

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2006-05-04 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 5/4/06, Gurjeet Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main grudge is that if we are supporting almost all flovours of nixens and compilers (close to 34 according to official website), then why are we leaving Windows platform alone? This will bring in quite a lot more developers. Sorry, but

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Page
] Build with Visual Studio MSVC . This would imply that the binary native win32 distribution of postgresql contains (or that a supplementary package exists) the libraries (and headers) that are necessary. Having these libraries in mingw format would be nice, having them for VC++ would

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2005-09-10 Thread Jean-Marc EBER
Hi all, A remark linked to the preceding discussion: Even if I could find some interest in compiling postgresql with Microsoft’s C compiler, I understand the technical and organizational difficulties implied by such a feature. If I want to rebuild from sources postgresql, I have to go the

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio MSVC

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Page wrote: Just for fun, I went through PostgreSQL 8.1 and did a complete build using Microsoft’s C and the latest Visual Studio. With a few minor tweaks, everything compiled with no errors. My assumption is that because PostgreSQL is a UNIX/Linux-centric project