Hello. I've been unable to build PostgreSQL using Meson on Windows. As I'm unsure of the cause, I'm providing this as a report.
In brief, the ninja command fails with the following error message on my Windows environment. >ninja -v ninja: error: 'src/backend/postgres_lib.a.p/meson_pch-c.obj', needed by 'src/backend/postgres.exe', missing and no known rule to make it I'd like to note that I haven't made any modification to meson.build, therefore, b_pch should be false. (I didn't confirm that because the python scripts are executables on my environment..) However, build.ninja actually contains several entries referencing meson_pch-c.obj, despite lacking corresponding entries to build them: > build src/backend/postgres.exe | src/backend/postgres.pdb: c_LINKER_RSP > src/backend/postgres.exe.p/win32ver.res > src/backend/postgres_lib.a.p/meson_pch-c.obj .. An excerpted output from the command "ninja". >ninja Version: 1.2.1 ... Build type: native build Project name: postgresql Project version: 17devel C compiler for the host machine: cl (msvc 19.34.31935 "Microsoft(R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.34.31935 for x64") C linker for the host machine: link link 14.34.31935.0 Host machine cpu family: x86_64 Host machine cpu: x86_64 ... Program python found: YES (C:\Users\horiguti\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.EXE) ... Program C:\Users\horiguti\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\meson found: YES (C:\Users\horiguti\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\meson.exe) ... Found ninja-1.11.1.git.kitware.jobserver-1 at C:\Users\horiguti\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\ninja.EXE Cleaning... 0 files. ninja: error: 'src/backend/postgres_lib.a.p/meson_pch-c.obj', needed by 'src/backend/postgres.exe', missing and no known rule to make it regards. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center
