Re: Win32 port patches submitted

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Justin Clift writes:
>
>>The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with
>>Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed
>>there),
>
> You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever
> compiler can also be used with a makefile-driven build system. Second,
> the port as it stands isn't really compatible with anything except Jan's
> build instructions. There's a lot of work to be done before we get
> anything that builds out of the box in the 7.4 branch, and it's going to
> be a lot easier if we do it using the build system we already have and
> know.

Thanks Peter. Really didn't know that MS Visual <things> could work
with makefile driven build systems, nor that the PeerDirect build
process was so... unique. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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