Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0

I could hardly find detailed and complete tutorials on building the latest version with Visual Studio. I did use meson to generate sln and vcxproj files in Command Prompt (attatchment: 00meson_cmd_to_gen_sln.txt). But after opening the sln and run menu command "build -> build solution", it failed. The contents of the Output Window in Visual Studio are in the attatchment 01build_log.txt.

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From: "Bill Smith" <bill(dot)smith(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Sent: 2024-10-27 15:07:39
To: "Mark Hill" <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0

Check out this:
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Meson
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There's a table showing the setup & build commands using the old way and the new way (meson).

On Oct 21, 2024, at 4:12 PM, Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com> wrote:

Thanks Bill! Do you have a sample meson command for building that you could share?

Thanks, Mark

From: Bill Smith <bill(dot)smith(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 4:11 PM
To: Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0

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On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com> wrote:

I just downloaded the Postgresql 17.0 and the extracted directory postgresql-17.0/src/tools does not contain

the “msvc” directory as it has since I’ve been building Postgres 12, 14, and 16. How am I supposed to build
PostgreSQL for Windows now? I’m not sure what msvc_gendef.pl does. How do we build Postgres for Windows
using Visual Studio?

You’ll want to use meson to build PG. See the docs here:
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17.7. Platform-Specific Notes
postgresql.org
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Thanks, Mark