Re: Win32 port

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Jan Wieck writes:
> > >
> > > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like
> > > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I
> > > > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it.
> > >
> > > Before long someone will port the Windows port to MinGW, so we should
> > > resist attempts to use compiler-specific features in the same way that we
> > > tend not to use vendors specific features in other ports.
> >
> > Agreed. I will make as clean a patch as possible. I think it is
> > doable.
>
> The thing with this particular feature was not to touch almost every
> source file in the whole tree. The headers to #include in a clean Win32
> world are totally different from what you #include in Unix.

OK, I am looking at the SRA patch and I don't see a huge number of
#include changes. Can you give an example? Also, isn't there a way to
do this in a more centralized way, perhaps in c.h?

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