Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

"Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote
>> William ZHANG wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
> > > To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>; "William ZHANG"
<uniware(at)zedware(dot)org>
> > > Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:21 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion
> >
> >
> > > > And even those are a royal pain to maintain, never mind an entire
set.
> >
> > > Besides, I'm sure what William really wants is not nmake files, but
VC++
> > > Project files - but then which version do we keep? It's not like we
> > > could say that everyone should be using VS2005, so all commits would
> > > have to be VC++ 6.0 or earlier compatible, otherwise someone is bound
to
> > > complain.
> >
> > You are right. What I want is VC++ projects(*.dsp, *.dsw). Once the
> > project files is created, the maintance work is simply add/remove some
> > new/deleted source files (*.c only) from the dsps.
> >
> > And I think VC++ 6.0 is ok, it is power enough and not so big for
pgsql's
> > development. And latter versions of VC++ can automatically convert 6.0's
> > project files. There are also a "VC++7 to VC++6 project converter" on
> > www.codeproject.com.
>
> Also, how do you build the backend with VC without the MinGW
> compatibility routines and include files? I know everyone is focused on
> the build environment and shell script support, but there is also
> library code translation support in MinGW too that we use.

At first, I thought about telling Makfiles to use VC++'s command line
CL.exe, LINK.exe. But it is too difficult. Now I want to try in another
way.

1. Configure, make, make install pgsql in MinGW first.
Bison/flex and the shell scripts will generate some needed files.
2. Build with VC++.
We can use its IDE or command line MSDEV.exe.

We can now elimate most of the difficulty, and make the VC++ projects
an addon.

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