Re: meson "experimental"?

Hi

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 17:36, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:

> On 04/06/2024 18:28, Dave Page wrote:
> > I clearly missed the discussion in which it was decided to remove the
> > old MSVC++ support from the tree (and am disappointed about that as I
> > would have objected loudly). Having recently started testing Meson on
> > Windows when I realised that change had been made, and having to update
> > builds for pgAdmin and the Windows installers, I think it's clear it's
> > far more experimental on that platform than it is on Linux at least.
>
> What kind of issues did you run into? Have they been fixed since?
>

zlib detection (
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+OCxozrPZx57ue8rmhq6CD1Jic5uqKh80=vTpZurSKESn-dkw@mail.gmail.com)
for which Nazir worked up an as-yet-uncommitted patch.

uuid detection, which Andrew fixed.

I also ran into an issue in which the build fails if both gssapi and
openssl are enabled, but it turns out that's a code issue that affects at
least v16 with the old build system as well.

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Dave Page
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