Re: Compiling extensions on Windows

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On 01/13/2014 11:35 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 01/12/2014 07:22 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 01/13/2014 11:13 AM, Joe Conway wrote: What I mean is that
>> you should not need a full Pg build tree to compile extensions.
>> Just as we use PGXS on *nix, so it is possible to just use Visual
>> Studio to build the extension on Windows as a VS project like any
>> other.
>
> I have never gotten that to work.
>
>>> As long as the SDK is matched, the resulting plr.dll works fine
>>> with the EDB one-click installer version of postgres (or at
>>> least so far).
>
>> The SDK shouldn't even need to match. Windows software is
>> expected to cope with mismatched, mix-and-match C runtimes. Icky,
>> but occasionally useful.
>
> Unfortunately my experience tells me otherwise. Mismatched SDK =
> plr.dll that does not work correctly with EDB builds of postgres.

Something for me to play with once this CF is over, then.

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