Re: [HACKERS] Also cannot build the postgresql server under Mingw

[Andrew Dunstan]

Dann Corbit wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:31 PM
To: Dann Corbit
Cc: PostgreSQL-development
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Also cannot build the postgresql 
server under Mingw using 8.0 beta 2

Dann Corbit wrote:
   

Adding this to the c.h file solved most of the problems for 
     

the libpq 
   

DLL:
#if defined(HAVE_STRINGS_H) && !defined(_MSC_VER)
#include <strings.h>
#endif
...
#if defined(WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER)
#include <winsock2.h>
#define snprintf _snprintf
#endif
Since I ran configure for MINGW (which has strings.h) it creates a
header file which is partly invalid for MS VC++
     

We do not expect configure to create a setup for any use on Windows 
other than building under MinGW.
   

Then why does the file \postgresql-8.0.0beta2\src\interfaces\libpq say
the following:
U:\postgresql-8.0.0beta2\src\interfaces\libpq>type win32.mak
# Makefile for Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 (or compat)
If you really do build the interface under only one compiler that is a
titanic step down from before.
 

You have missed the point. You should be able to build using that 
makefile *without* having run configure. After all, you can't run 
configure on Windows at all without MinGW or Cygwin. If you use it, it 
not unreasonably assumes that that will be your build environment too.

cheers
andrew
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