On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 19:45, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get PL/R binaries built on Windows, which I have not been > able to do successfully since the switch to Visual Studio from MinGW in > PostgreSQL 8.3. For some reason the MinGW PL/R binary does not load in > the VS compiled Postgres. Everything works if I also build PostgreSQL > with MinGW, but most people want to grab the standard binary release of > Postgres and combine it with a precompiled binary PL/R. > > So in any case, my questions are: > > 1) Can Postgres be compiled with VS 2008 yet?
No. > 2) If not, does anyone have a link for VS 2005? I haven't been able to > locate it on the MS site. Yes. I'm unsure if they want that public or anything, so I'll send it to you offlist :-) > 3) Once I get Postgres compiling under VS, is the compilation of contrib > libraries automated as part of the build, or is there anything special I > would need to do? The buildscript that's there can generate buildfiles for contrib. I haven't used it to build "external contrib modules", but it's probably a pretty good start. If not, just steal the project file from another contrib module and modify the files it references (yeah, I know, ugly..) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
