On 2017-04-07 13:00:39 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Insurmountable, probably not. The big difference is that you don't need
> *any* dependencies to build a libpq using win32.mak, but you need many of
> them (to start with, perl...) to build using the built-in one. For people
> who want to build it, it certainly save a lot more than "a few minutes".
> For somebody who doesn't have ready scripts it takes a *long* time to set
> up a build environment to do our regular msvc builds.
For a useful libpq you actually need a good chunk of dependencies,
including openssl.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
