Re[3]: [GENERAL] Build PG 8.4 (MinGW vs. MSVC)

2009-09-29 Thread el dorado
> > > What is recommended now for building PG 8.4 for WinXP? Is it better to > > > use MSVC compiler?> > Regards, Marina. > > > MingW is perfectly supported, and we know people use it. > > MSVC is the recommended one I'd say, mainly because that's how the > > official binaries are built, so the

Re[2]: [GENERAL] Build PG 8.4 (MinGW vs. MSVC)

2009-09-21 Thread el dorado
> > What is recommended now for building PG 8.4 for WinXP? Is it better to use > > MSVC compiler?> > MingW is perfectly supported, and we know people use it. > MSVC is the recommended one I'd say, mainly because that's how the > official binaries are built, so the results are much more well-test

Re: [GENERAL] Build PG 8.4 (MinGW vs. MSVC)

2009-09-18 Thread Magnus Hagander
2009/9/18 el dorado : > Hello! > I need to build PG 8.4 from sources for WinXP. There are two ways to do it: > by means of MinGW of by means of MSVC. Firstly I used MinGW (gcc), but > unfortunately I noticed some problems with result biniries (f.e. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/

[GENERAL] Build PG 8.4 (MinGW vs. MSVC)

2009-09-18 Thread el dorado
Hello! I need to build PG 8.4 from sources for WinXP. There are two ways to do it: by means of MinGW of by means of MSVC. Firstly I used MinGW (gcc), but unfortunately I noticed some problems with result biniries (f.e. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-09/msg00526.php). What is r