Re: VS2022: Support Visual Studio 2022 on Windows

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Hans Buschmann <buschmann(at)nidsa(dot)net>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VS2022: Support Visual Studio 2022 on Windows
Date: 2021-11-24 11:36:27
Message-ID: YZ4juwMA9wLtpBQV@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:00:19AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> It's extremely unlikely that we'd shift to such a new version for PG15. We
> build many components aside from PostgreSQL, and need to use the same
> toolchain for all of them (we've had very painful experiences with mix n
> match CRT versions in the past) so it's not just PG that needs to support
> VS2022 as far as we're concerned

Yes, I can understand that upgrading the base version of VS used is a
very difficult exercise. I have been through that, on Windows for
Postgres.. As well as for the compilation of all its dependencies.

> - Perl, Python, TCL, MIT Kerberos,
> OpenSSL, libxml2, libxslt etc. are all built with the same toolchain for
> consistency.

Dave, do you include LZ4 in 14? Just asking, as a matter of
curiosity.
--
Michael

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