Re: Building psqlODBC on newer Visual Studio versions

Hi Paul,

See postgresql-interfaces/psqlodbc (github.com)
<https://github.com/postgresql-interfaces/psqlodbc>

<https://github.com/postgresql-interfaces/psqlodbc>I've moved the project
to github.
Dave Cramer
www.postgres.rocks

On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 05:42, Paul Chambre <pchambre(at)deephaven(dot)io> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have managed to get the current package to build using Visual Studio
> 2022 using the batch files from a VS command prompt.
>
> The most significant changes I had to make were to MSProgram-Get.ps1. I
> had to add a toolsout of 17 for VS version 17.6, and I had to add a module
> import for VSSetup in find_vs_installation.
>
> For building installers to work, I had to set an explicit value of WIX to
> the parent of the Wix bin directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul Chambre
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM Paul Chambre <pchambre(at)deephaven(dot)io> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been trying to build the driver with newer versions of Visual Studio
>> such as 2017 and 2022 on Windows 10. It's been painful. None of the ps
>> scripts like the newer versions, and many of the mak files expect to be
>> used only with version 9.6. I managed to build the x86 dlls with nmake on
>> 2022, but now I'm fighting with a lot of stuff to get the installer to
>> build (changing the version number to 09.06.0100, setting WIX, hacking
>> NoPDB... ).
>>
>> Just wondering whether this project is still the official open source
>> PostgreSQL ODBC driver, or is there a newer fork I should be looking at
>> instead.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>
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