Re: Standard binaries compilier - how to know?

2008/7/17 el dorado <do_ra_do(at)mail(dot)ru>:
> Hello!
> Is there any opportunity to find out what compilier is used to build standard binaries from http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.3.3/win32/
> (postgresql-8.3.3-1-binaries-no-installer.zip
> MSVC or MinGW(gcc)?
> I have some problems with C-procedures compilation (PG 8.3, WinXP). I've got the information from mailing list (thanks to all who had answered) that the cause of these problems could be the using of different compiliers.
> But now my library doesn't work correctly in both variants (MSVC and MinGW)... :(

SELECT version();

It was actually built with VC++ 2005, fully service-packed. That said,
it is possible to mix'n'match compilers, provided you don't pass crt
pointers around. Both Slony and PostGIS are still built with
Mingw/Msys.

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