From: | mmatthew(at)thematthews(dot)org |
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To: | curtis(at)galtcapital(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Windows Build System |
Date: | 2003-01-26 02:04:25 |
Message-ID: | 62911.64.81.138.200.1043546665.squirrel@localhost.my.domain |
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Curtis Faith wrote:
>>Hannu Krosing asked:
>> Does anyone know how MySQL and interbase/firebird do it ?
>>
>From the MySQL web site for version 4.0:
>"The Windows binaries use the Cygwin library. Source code for the
>version of Cygwin we have used is available on this page."
>I think this offers a very big opportunity to differentiate. If we had
>project support it would make PostgreSQL a more natural choice for
>Windows developers.
MySQL uses Cygwin for libreadline support in the client 'mysqlc'. That's
pretty much it.
The rest is a standard Visual C++ project that has the files moved from
the unix sources via a script.
-Mark
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