On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Yuriy Zhuravlev <stalk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Indeed. It's possibly today to use CMake without a huge amount of > difficulty to build extensions out of tree against MSVC-built > postgres. > > > How? All builds what I saw was with tons of hacks.
There is a simple example here: <https://bitbucket.org/adunstan/pg-closed-ranges/src/0475b50ff793ce876a78c96d72903c9793a98fc1/?at=cmake> No tons of hacks. > On windows, Postgres can build against Mingw, many versions of MSVC and etc > Also, you can build Postgres without some features or with extra and no good > way to put this knowledge to CMake build system. > > > At least we should replace Windows build system by cmake and if your worry > about consistency of source files (it's very small problem actually) you can > use current > Perl script to generate files list for CMake, it will be same as your 1.5 > build system. That would just add to the knowledge that developers and committers would need. "One more level of indirection" is rarely the right solution. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
