Re: Issues while building PG in MS Windows, using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64

On 04/30/2018 02:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "insaf.k" <insaf(dot)k(at)zohocorp(dot)com> writes:
>> gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -g -std=c11 -I../../src/port -DFRONTEND -I../../src/include -I./src/include/port/win32 -DEXEC_BACKEND "-I../../src/include/port/win32" -DBUILDING_DLL -c -o win32env.o win32env.c
>> win32env.c: In function 'pgwin32_putenv':
>> win32env.c:24:22: error: expected ')' before '*' token
>> typedef int (_cdecl * PUTENVPROC) (const char *);
>> ^
> Hmm. This sort of looks like your compiler isn't recognizing _cdecl
> as a special token, but I have no idea why a Windows-ready compiler
> wouldn't handle that.
>
>

I haven't looked deeply at this thread, but it's worth pointing out that
MSYS2 is not the same thing as MSYS, and I at least have no experience
of building with it.

Now Msys hasn't been updated for quite a while. so maybe we need to look
at these tools. Our documentation currently does not refer to MSYS2 at all.

cheers

andrew

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