Re: Compiling extensions on Windows

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Sandeep Thakkar
<sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Sure. I'll make the changes so that the next available Windows installers
> include lbintl.h in $Installdir/include. How about the changes with respect
> to NLS?

No, there's nothing to change there. Craig was suggesting that users
could disable NLS in their extension to avoid issues with the missing
header, but that's not a good solution.

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Out of personal interest (in pain and suffering) I was recently looking
>> > into how to compile extensions out-of-tree on Windows using Visual
>> > Studio (i.e. no PGXS).
>> >
>> > It looks like the conventional answer to this is "Do a source build of
>> > PG, compile your ext in-tree in contrib/, and hope the result is binary
>> > compatible with release PostgreSQL builds for Windows". Certainly that's
>> > how I've been doing it to date.
>> >
>> > How about everyone else here? Does anyone actually build and distribute
>> > extensions out of tree at all?
>> >
>> > I'm interested in making the Windows installer distributions a bit more
>> > extension dev friendly. In particular, I'd really like to see EDB's
>> > Windows installers include the libintl.h for the included libintl, since
>> > its omission, combined with Pg being built with ENABLE_NLS, tends to
>> > break things horribly. Users can always undefine ENABLE_NLS, but it's an
>> > unnecessary roadblock.
>>
>> Sandeep, can you work on fixing this please?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> > Are there any objections from -hackers to including 3rd party headers
>> > for libs we expose in our public headers in the binary distribution?
>> >
>> > Other than bundling 3rd party headers, any ideas/suggestions for how we
>> > might make ext building saner on Windows?
>> >
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