Re: Building Postgres with lz4 on Visual Studio

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melih Mutlu <m(dot)melihmutlu(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Building Postgres with lz4 on Visual Studio
Date: 2022-04-30 20:33:49
Message-ID: 20220430203349.evi6yuyl7fduuksw@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-04-29 08:50:56 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree that we should use perl's -e to test that the files actually
> exists. But I don't think we should try to adjust to everything the zstd
> and lz4 people put in their release files. They are just horribly
> inconsistent.

Right now it's the source of packages we document for windows... It doesn't
seem that crazy to accept a few different paths with a glob or such?

> What I did was to install the packages using vcpkg[1] which is a
> standard framework created by Microsoft for installing package
> libraries. It does install the .lib files in a sane place
> (installdir/lib), but it doesn't use the lib suffix. Also it names the
> lib file for zlib differently.

That doesn't seem much better :(

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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