Re: information Windows - PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: information Windows - PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-06-18 17:59:25
Message-ID: 200306181759.h5IHxP317689@candle.pha.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> I assume then that the MinGW environment is missing signal emulation
> that is present in the Microsoft C runtime distribution? Microsoft's is
> copyrighted, of course in winsig.c (it is actually quite small, just a
> couple hundred lines of code). Are you proposing to rewrite that part
> of the CRT? I checked the redistribution license and winsig,etc.c are
> most certainly not suitable for incorporation into an open source
> project.

I actuallly don't even know the answer. I don't know what is possible
with MinGW vs Visual C. I need help.

I would have dug into it, but I got pretty far with MinGW, then had to
stop to catch up on email, and still not caught up enough to return to
MinGW.

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