Re: MSYS2 support

2019-12-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2019-12-12 22:11, Peter Eisentraut wrote: You can also build natively on MSYS2, using the existing Cygwin support. Except that it won't work because configure doesn't recognize the config.guess output. Attached are a couple of small patches to fix that up. The first patch fixes configure

MSYS2 support

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
There were a number of recent threads about building PostgreSQL on MSYS2. This has been confusing on occasion; see for example [0]. MSYS2 is actually a derivative of Cygwin. What most people are actually doing is using MSYS2 has the host environment for doing a kind of cross-compilation to M