Re: Compiling extensions on Windows

Sure. I'll make the changes so that the next available Windows installers
include lbintl.h in $Installdir/include. How about the changes with respect
to NLS?

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Out of personal interest (in pain and suffering) I was recently looking
> > into how to compile extensions out-of-tree on Windows using Visual
> > Studio (i.e. no PGXS).
> >
> > It looks like the conventional answer to this is "Do a source build of
> > PG, compile your ext in-tree in contrib/, and hope the result is binary
> > compatible with release PostgreSQL builds for Windows". Certainly that's
> > how I've been doing it to date.
> >
> > How about everyone else here? Does anyone actually build and distribute
> > extensions out of tree at all?
> >
> > I'm interested in making the Windows installer distributions a bit more
> > extension dev friendly. In particular, I'd really like to see EDB's
> > Windows installers include the libintl.h for the included libintl, since
> > its omission, combined with Pg being built with ENABLE_NLS, tends to
> > break things horribly. Users can always undefine ENABLE_NLS, but it's an
> > unnecessary roadblock.
>
> Sandeep, can you work on fixing this please?
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Are there any objections from -hackers to including 3rd party headers
> > for libs we expose in our public headers in the binary distribution?
> >
> > Other than bundling 3rd party headers, any ideas/suggestions for how we
> > might make ext building saner on Windows?
> >
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