Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
http://www.janwieck.net/win32_port/notes.win32-ports.txt How to compile this Win32 port 1) Requirements and 1-time settings: 1.1) Visual C++ You need VC++ 6.0 on ServicePack 5. Oooh no, not MS stuff plz :( Dev-Cpp is cool open source IDE, tha using a mingw port of gcc. http://www.bloodshed.net/ - Original Message - From: Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Emmanuel Charpentier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not, you might find yourself all of the sudden out in cold ... Jan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... Emmanuel Charpentier [ Back to lurking ... ] Brian Bruns wrote: Problem is, nobody builds packages on windows anyway. They just all download the binary a guy (usually literally one guy) built. So, let's just make sure that one guy has cygwin loaded on his machine and we'll be all set. /tougue in cheek Sorry, couldn't help myself...Seriously, it's a cultural thing, I wouldn't plan on a mighty hoard of windows database developers who are put off by loading cygwin. I do wonder what the requirements are for building commercial db's that run on unix and windows. I imagine they are similarly off-putting if it were an option. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Al Sutton wrote: I would back keeping the windows specific files, and if anything moving the code away from using the UNIX like programs. My reasoning is that the more unix tools you use for compiling, the less likley you are to attract existing windows-only developers to work on the code. I see the Win32 patch as a great oppertunity to attract more eyes to the code, and don't want the oppertunity to be lost because of the build requirements. Al. - Original Message - From: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Postgres development [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Win32 port patches submitted Jan Wieck writes: I just submitted the patches for the native Win32 port of v7.2.1 on the patches mailing list. I'm concerned that you are adding all these *.dsp files for build process control. This is going to be a burden to maintain. Everytime someone changes an aspect of how a file is built the Windows port needs to be fixed. And since the tool that operates on these files is probably not freely available this will be difficult. I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full shell environment. A lot of the porting aspects such as substitute implemenations of the C library functions could be handled nearly for free using the existing infrastructure and this whole patch would become much less intimidating. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [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
Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not, you might find yourself all of the sudden out in cold ... 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 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
-Original Message- From: Jan Wieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:04 PM To: Emmanuel Charpentier Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not, you might find yourself all of the sudden out in cold ... GDB works fine. Some of the other tools don't work right (e.g. sed is broken). ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
Jan Wieck wrote: Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Mingw and mingw-ported tools ? That's a nice small and cozy unix-like envoronment on tom of Windows. Add it emacs, and windoww becomes almost tolerable ... How good is the debugging support under mingW? Is it at least comparable to using gdb under unix? If not, you might find yourself all of the sudden out in cold ... gdb has been ported to mingw. There even exist some interfaces to graphical IDEs (while I don't really care for that). Another point : this environment is 100% free. You don't have to use proprietary tools. This might be a point in some environments. Emmanuel Charpentier ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
Re: [HACKERS] [mail] Re: Win32 port patches submitted
Dann Corbit wrote: [ ... ] GDB works fine. Some of the other tools don't work right (e.g. sed is broken). Recent fixes exist, but I didn't check all of them. WorksForMe(TM), but my projects are *much* simpler ... Emmanuel Charpentier ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
