Re: Visual Studio 2005, C-language function - avoiding hacks? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Takahiro Itagaki
Subject Re: Visual Studio 2005, C-language function - avoiding hacks?
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Msg-id 20100309165509.99D1.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp
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In response to Re: Visual Studio 2005, C-language function - avoiding hacks?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

> >> The existing mechanism
> >> works (as demonstrated by the fact that the contrib modules work on
> >> Windows).
> >
> > Did we use non-standard tools except msvc in the build framework
> > for core code? And what should I do for an external project?
> 
> Yes, we use mingw.

Hmmm, it means the existing mechanism can only work on limited environments.
Should we make the code to be more portable for standard developers?

Third party developer might not build the postgres server,
but they would want to build their extension modules without mingw.

Regards,
---
Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center




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