Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Anthony Roberts <anthony(dot)roberts(at)linaro(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mike Holmes <mike(dot)holmes(at)linaro(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Lina Iyer <lina(dot)iyer(at)linaro(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
Date: 2024-01-30 13:38:40
Message-ID: bd91d300-a48f-adde-5add-fd4edd00c4c3@dunslane.net
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On 2024-01-29 Mo 11:20, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> Dave Cramer
> www.postgres.rocks
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 11:16, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 2024-01-26 Fr 09:18, Dave Cramer wrote:
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>>
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:36, Andrew Dunstan
>> <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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>>
>> On 2024-01-25 Th 20:32, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 04:52:30PM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 16:32, Andrew Dunstan
>> <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> >>> On 2024-01-25 Th 16:17, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> >>> Yeah, I think the default Developer Command Prompt for
>> VS2022 is set up
>> >>> for x86 builds. AIUI you should start by executing
>> "vcvarsall x64_arm64".
>> >> Yup, now I'm in the same state you are
>> > Wait a minute here.  Based on [1], x64_arm64 means you can
>> use a x64
>> > host and you'll be able to produce ARM64 builds, still
>> these will not
>> > be able to run on the host where they were built.  How much
>> of the
>> > patch posted upthread is required to produce such builds? 
>> Basically
>> > everything from it, I guess, so as build dependencies can be
>> > satisfied?
>> >
>> > [1]:
>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/building-on-the-command-line?view=msvc-170
>>
>>
>> If you look at the table here x86 and x64 are the only
>> supported host
>> architectures. But that's OK, the x64 binaries will run on
>> arm64 (W11
>> ARM64 has x64 emulation builtin). If that didn't work Dave
>> and I would
>> not have got as far as we have. But you want the x64_arm64
>> argument to
>> vcvarsall so you will get ARM64 output.
>>
>>
>> I've rebuilt it using  x64_arm64 and with the attached (very
>> naive patch) and I still get an x64 binary :(
>
>
> With this patch I still get a build error, but it's different :-)
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> [1406/2088] "link" @src/backend/postgres.exe.rsp
> FAILED: src/backend/postgres.exe src/backend/postgres.pdb
> "link" @src/backend/postgres.exe.rsp
>    Creating library src\backend\postgres.exe.lib
>
> storage_lmgr_s_lock.c.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external
> symbol spin_delay referenced in function perform_spin_delay
>
> src\backend\postgres.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>
>
> Did you add the latest lock.patch ?
>
>

I'm a bit confused about exactly what needs to be applied. Can you
supply a complete patch to be applied to a pristine checkout that will
let me build?

cheers

andrew

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