Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> - 0001, as mentioned by Petr upthread, psed is removed from the core
>> distribution of Perl in 5.22, so when installing ActivePerl it is not
>> possible to create probes.h, and the code compilation would fail. I
>> bumped into that so here is a patch. What I am proposing here is to
>> replace psed by sed, sed being available in MSYS like bison and flex,
>> so when building using MSVC the environment to set up is normally
>> already good to go even with this additional dependency. Now, it is
>> important to mention that probes.h is not part of a source tarball. I
>> think that we would want probes.h to be part of a source tarball so as
>> it would be possible to compile the code on Windows using MSVC without
>> having to install MSYS. I haven't done that in this patch, thoughts on
>> the matter are welcome.
>
> I think the path of least resistance is to change the sed script into a
> Perl script. Should be fairly simple ...

Yes that's possible as well. It would be better to use the same
process for *nix platforms as well.
--
Michael