On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:53:55PM -0600, Charlie Savage wrote: > In addition to the encoding issues I have with the 8.2.4 MSVC++ build > (see previous email), there are some other issues that I've run into: > > 1. The custom build step that generates DEF files for DLLS using a perl > script does not work. The perl script runs, and a slew of symbol > information is output to the MSVC++ console. And a def file is created, > but it always empty. > > If you run the perl script (gendef.pl) by hand from a DOS prompt, the > DEF file is created correctly. That of course is a bit of pain since > you have to do it for a number of the MSVC++ projects.
Yeah, this is a known problem, and it's fixed for 8.3. Really, the msvc build process in 8.2 has a *lot* of rough edges ;-) The code itself builds fine, but the buildsystem needed a lot more work. > 2. The build has hard-coded paths (as far as I can see) to zlib and > openssl. Is there a way to a) remove them or b) change them ahead of > time so you don't have to manually change 20+ project files? They are set in config.pl. Change it there and re-run the mkvcbuild script and it'll update all those places. > 3. If you have a contrib module that is not known to the build system > it blows up. For example, I use PostGIS. When running build.bat it > stops at postgis (sorry, I didn't write down the error message but can > easily get it if needed). Could unknown contrib modules just be skipped > instead? Uh, can you explain more what you mean? How can the pg build be affected by postgis? > 4. I was surprised to find out that a MSVC++ build cannot open a > database cluster created by a MSYS build (not sure about vice versa > since I didn't checked). When running pg_ctl start a checksum error is > returned. Is this expected? I got around it by doing a dump from the > MSYS database and a restore into the MSVC++ database, which worked fine. No, it's not really expected, that should work. Are they compiled with the same options? Compare pg_controldata output between the two clusters (using mingw pg_controldata for the mingw install and msvc dfor the msvc install of course) > Hope these comments help - and thanks for providing the build scripts. > They make it *much* easier to debug postgresql and contrib modules on > Windows. > > Out of curiosity, will the MSVC++ build become the default for 8.3 on > Windows or will it remain MSYS for a bit longer? The binary distribution will be using the MSVC++ build for 8.3. But we'll keep msys around and fullyi supported, of course. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
