Re: Windows Build System was: Win32 port patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: Windows Build System was: Win32 port patches
Date
Msg-id 1043257786.17127.45.camel@huli
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In response to Re: Windows Build System was: Win32 port patches submitted  ("Curtis Faith" <curtis@galtair.com>)
Responses Re: Windows Build System  ("Curtis Faith" <curtis@galtair.com>)
Re: Windows Build System was: Win32 port patches  ("bbaker@priefert.com" <bbaker@priefert.com>)
Re: Windows Build System  ("Curtis Faith" <curtis@galtair.com>)
Re: Windows Build System  ("Curtis Faith" <curtis@galtcapital.com>)
Re: Windows Build System was: Win32 port patches  (Alan Gutierrez <ajglist@izzy.net>)
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On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:34, Curtis Faith wrote:
> tom lane writes:
> > You think we should drive away our existing unix developers 
> > in the mere hope of attracting windows developers?  Sorry, it 
> > isn't going to happen.
> 
> Tom brings up a good point, that changes to support Windows should not
> add to the tasks of those who are doing the bulk of the work on Unixen.
> 
> I don't think, however, that this necessarily means that having Windows
> developers use Cygwin is the right solution. We need to come up with a
> way to support Windows Visual C++ projects without adding work to the
> other developers. 

Does anyone know how MySQL and interbase/firebird do it ?


> POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
> 
> The Visual C++ Workspaces and Projects files are actually text files
> that have a defined format. I don't think the format is published but it
> looks pretty easy to figure out.

will probably change between releases (also I dont think you can easily
compile C source on a C# compiler) ;/


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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>


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