Re: Trying to build x86 version on windows using meson

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 12:20 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > Obviously tests can't run in that environment, but building should be
> > possible. I can e.g. build postgres for x86-64 windows on my linux machine,
> > but can't run the tests (in theory they could be run with wine, but wine isn't
> > complete enough to run postgres).
>
> For anyone interested in that, the most apparent reason why WINE
> currently can't run a cross-build of psql.exe or postgres.exe on a
> Linux/FreeBSD/macOS host is now on their bug list[1] and just needs
> someone to write an easy patch. I dimly recall there were more subtle
> things that broke here and there before the relevant change of ours
> went in, and it would be pretty cool if we could make a list and
> report 'em...
>
> [1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56951

Just for the record, apparently they fixed that one.