| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT |
| Date: | 2014-02-03 06:13:05 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZQvQs_Szyq+j34SU-pPiqZqJAHffa+LC7Zb=My=9x4kVQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm not a fan of MinGW (gcc) on Windows, it's a right pain. It's also
> the only open source compiler currently supported for PostgreSQL on
> Windows - practically the only one available. I don't know about you,
> but I'm not too keen on assuming Microsoft will continue to offer free
> toolchains that're usable for our purposes. They're crippling their free
> build tools more and more with each release, which isn't a good trend.
I was under the impression that Microsoft had finally come around to
implementing a few C99 features in Visual Studio 2013 precisely
because they want there to be an open source ecosystem on Windows.
--
Peter Geoghegan
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