RE: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0

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<mailto: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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Thanks, Mark