Re: MSVC build system - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: MSVC build system
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Msg-id 20070827183835.GG20539@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: MSVC build system  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: MSVC build system  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Neil Conway wrote:

>> I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I wonder if maintaining two
>> separate build systems is the best approach in the long term. I think
>> CMake[1] is an interesting alternative: it would allow us to generate
>> both makefiles and MSVC .proj's from a single set of master build files.
>
> I would be more than happy if we had a single build system. Maybe some 
> enterprising person would like to try to create such a system as a proof of 
> concept. I count around 200 makefiles in our sources ;-)
>
> Of course, we'd need to know that cmake was pretty universally available 
> too.

That, or we create the makefiles in a fixed system and keep the
Makefiles in CVS (though would be derived files).

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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