Re: Beta5 libpq Build broken with MS .NET 2003

Thanks Claudio. The DLL compiles with those changes. Hopefully one of the
committers can make the appropriate patch.

-Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claudio Natoli" <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>
To: "'Tony and Bryn Reina'" <reina_ga(at)hotmail(dot)com>;
<pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Beta5 libpq Build broken with MS .NET
2003

>
> Hello Tony,
>
> the problem here is that the MS compiler has no definition of pid_t.
> Adding
> a line like:
> typedef int pid_t;
> to src\include\port\win32.h before line 111 will get you past this.
>
> It appears that you'll also need to comment out:
> #include <unistd.h>
> at line 24 of src\interfaces\libpq\fe-connect.c in order to complete the
> libpq build (under VC++ at least). Lastly, psql builds with a whole host
> of
> warnings, but appears functional.
>
> To the community at large, I've been out of touch for a while so not sure
> how best to patch, but I HTH.
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony and Bryn Reina [mailto:reina_ga(at)hotmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Monday, 22 November 2004 8:59 PM
> To: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Beta5 libpq Build broken with MS .NET 2003
>
>
> I just downloaded 8.0beta5 to see if I could build libpq.dll with MS
> Visual
> Studio .NET 2003 on Windows XP. The make file throws the error:
>
> Building the Win32 static library...
>
> copy pthread.h.win32 pthread.h
> 1 file(s) copied.
> echo #define SYSCONFDIR "" >pg_config_paths.h
> if not exist ".\Release/" mkdir ".\Release"
> cl.exe @C:\DOCUME~1\Tony\LOCALS~1\Temp\nm32F.tmp
> getaddrinfo.c
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'pid'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2144: syntax error : '<Unknown>' should be preceded by '<Unknown>'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2144: syntax error : '<Unknown>' should be preceded by '<Unknown>'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before 'identifier'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'pid'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32.h(111)
> :
> error C2059: syntax error : ';'
> c:\msys\1.0\home\Tony\postgresql-8.0.0beta5\src\include\port\win32h(111) :
> error C2059: syntax error : ')'
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl.exe' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> 2003\VC7\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
>
> I looked at the offending line in win32.h and don't immediately see any
> errors with the ). Tried adding a ) before pid, but that causes more
> errors.
> Perhaps someone smarter can see where the problem is.
>
> -Tony
>