Re: Compiling extensions on Windows

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On 01/05/2014 07:32 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Out of personal interest (in pain and suffering) I was recently
> looking into how to compile extensions out-of-tree on Windows using
> Visual Studio (i.e. no PGXS).
>
> It looks like the conventional answer to this is "Do a source build
> of PG, compile your ext in-tree in contrib/, and hope the result is
> binary compatible with release PostgreSQL builds for Windows".
> Certainly that's how I've been doing it to date.

Yes, this pretty much exactly describes how I build PL/R for Windows.
I had to match my build system SDK with the one EDB uses to get a
compatible binary. It would be nice if we had something equivalent to
PGXS on Windows, or maybe even a community build system where authors
could get Windows binaries built.

Joe

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