Added to TODO: Allow compilation using MSVC 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:19, Tom Lane<tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dave Huber <DHuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I have recently installed MS VC++ 2008 Express Edition for a project > >> that interfaces with PostgreSQL. I really liked that it had tools for > >> creating the solution and projects under VC++. However, the perl > >> scripts create solution and project files for VC++ 2005. This causes > >> the build to fail if you have 2008 installed since the projects need > >> to be updated before they can be built with vcbuild. > > > > Count on Microsoft to arbitrarily break their customers' code :-( > > They don't. They provide upgrade tools that will upgrade the format of > the project files automatically for you. > > If your project files are developed in the normal way, you run thi > upgrade on them and you're done. > > In our case, we re-generate them, so they have to be upgraded every > time. But the tools are still there. I haven't tried it myself, but > IIRC Dave Page did try that at one point, but there were some further > issues. Not sure where that ended. > > > >> ?2. ?Can I submit my scripts and have the msvc tools reviewed/updated? > > > > I believe the current Windows binaries are still being built with 2005, > > so unless you can change it in a backwards-compatible fashion, the odds > > of the patch getting rejected are pretty high. ?But you can try. ?This > > is the wrong list for submitting patches, however --- send to > > pgsql-hackers. > > If you can produce a patch that will make it work with *both* 2005 and > 2008, that will definitely be accepted. If you provide one that does > only 2008, it won't. > > Again, I know Dave P looked into making the scripts smart enough to > generate them in 2005 format and then automatically update it if you > ran on 2008, not sure where it ended. That is one approach. > > Another approach is to have the scripts detect which version is in > your environment, and generate files in that version. That really > depends on how big the format difference is. If they're fairly small, > this is perhaps the best way. > > I'd much like to see the patch that makes it run on 2008, so we can > discuss which of these two methods will be best. As Tom says, please > do so on the pgsql-hackers mailinglist. > > -- > Magnus Hagander > Me: http://www.hagander.net/ > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
