On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:24:43PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2020-02-13 13:04, Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > When making build system changes that risk breaking the MSVC build system, > > > it's useful to be able to run the part of the MSVC build tools that read > > > the > > > makefiles and produce the project files under a not-Windows platform. > > > This > > > part does not really depend on anything particular to Windows, so it's > > > possible in principle. There are some minor dependencies on Windows, > > > however, that need to be worked around. I have had some local hacks for > > > that > > > for a while, and I took a moment to clean them up and make them > > > presentable, > > > so here they are. Interested? > > > > > > To test, apply the patch and run perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl . > > > > $ perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl . > > Warning: no config.pl found, using default. > > Unable to determine Visual Studio version: The nmake command wasn't > > found. at /home/ioltas/git/postgres/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm line 92. > > Is that the expected result? > > No, I had apparently created by own fake "nmake" shell script some time ago > to work around that. Here is a new patch with that taken care of, too.
With v2 I'm able to successfully run mkvcbuild.pl on linux and macos. I don't have any knowledge on compiling with windows, so I can't really judge what it's been doing.
