Greetings, insaf.k. You wrote 25.04.2018, 11:45:
> Hello, > I have developed a postgres extension in Linux. I want to compile it in MS > Windows as well. You should try MSYS2. It's far better than VS and MSYS right now. I may try to build your extension if you want. > The extension extensively make use of POSIX threads and mutexes. > I've done some research regarding compiling in Windows. I am not > sure in what way I should compile the extension. AFAIK, Visual > Studio is not POSIX compliant and so I'll have to rewrite all those > POSIX calls using Windows API. So it's better to compile the extension in > Cygwin. > I have some questions regarding compiling the extension in Cygwin. > Do I have to build PG in Cygwin, if I want to compile the extension in Cygwin? > Our deployment pattern is like this, build everything in one > machine and copy the DLLs into the production machine. So, if I > compile in Cygwin, will the generated DLLs work in other Windows > machines? Would the target machine be required to install any > dependencies related to Cygwin in order to use the DLLs? > Also, one more question, not related to PG. Cygwin vs native > Windows API calls, will there be much difference in the > performance?(We are not using fork() calls, btw). > Thanks, > Insaf -- Kind regards, Pavlo mailto:pavlo.go...@cybertec.at
