Re: allow running parts of src/tools/msvc/ under not Windows

On 2020-02-13 13:04, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> When making build system changes that risk breaking the MSVC build system,
>> it's useful to be able to run the part of the MSVC build tools that read the
>> makefiles and produce the project files under a not-Windows platform. This
>> part does not really depend on anything particular to Windows, so it's
>> possible in principle. There are some minor dependencies on Windows,
>> however, that need to be worked around. I have had some local hacks for that
>> for a while, and I took a moment to clean them up and make them presentable,
>> so here they are. Interested?
>>
>> To test, apply the patch and run perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .
>
> $ perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .
> Warning: no config.pl found, using default.
> Unable to determine Visual Studio version: The nmake command wasn't
> found. at /home/ioltas/git/postgres/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm line 92.
> Is that the expected result?

No, I had apparently created by own fake "nmake" shell script some time
ago to work around that. Here is a new patch with that taken care of, too.

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