Re: errors building on windows using meson

Hi

I was facing the same error when using active state perl for compiling
postgres with meson on windows. I used active state perl because it was
working fine for pg compilations until pg-16.

Using choco strawberry perl solved my problem.

Thanks

Imran Zaheer

On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 00:22, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 14:34, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2023-12-07 14:16:52 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> > On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 13:53, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > On 2023-12-07 12:54:27 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> > > > state-exec: run failed: cannot create new executor meta: cannot get
>> > > > matching bin by path: no matching binary by path
>> > > >
>> > >
>> "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local\\activestate\\cache\\b9117b06\\exec\\perl.EXE"
>> > > > state-exec: Not user serviceable; Please contact support for
>> assistance.
>> > > >
>> > > > anyone seen this or have a fix ?
>> > >
>> > > I've not seen that before. Please provide a bit more detail. Compiler,
>> > > building with ninja or msbuild/visual studio, when exactly you're
>> > > encountering
>> > > the issue, ...
>> > >
>> > > Windows Server 2019
>> > VS 2019
>> > building with ninja
>>
>> I don't think this is sufficient detail to provide you with advice / fix
>> problems / whatnot. Please provide complete logs of configuring and
>> building.
>>
>
> I built perl from source and it worked.
>
> Dave
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>> - Andres
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