Re: Building extensions on Windows using VS2008

>
> build.pl parses the Makefile to determine the list of sources, etc.
> Essentially, your extension is built using the unix Makefile. Since you've
> already built Pg its self from sources you will have used build.pl to do
> it (right?) and it'll be easy for you to add the contrib module and re-run.
>
> The downside of this approach is that build.pl isn't a complete Makefile
> parser, and is easily confused by anything but the most trivial Makefile
> syntax. I had problems when I was putting the crashdump module together
> because build.pl didn't understand ifndef .
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>

Ok, I hadn't realized that the VS build system extrapolates information from
unix Makefiles..

I briefly tried adding a new contrib module for my extension and re-running
the VS build (src\tools\msvc\build.bat), and still get the same error.
(about redefinition of errcode). Somehow, it seems to me that there's an
inherent incompatibility..

--
Deepak