On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When making build system changes that risk breaking the MSVC build system,
> it's useful to be able to run the part of the MSVC build tools that read the
> makefiles and produce the project files under a not-Windows platform. This
> part does not really depend on anything particular to Windows, so it's
> possible in principle. There are some minor dependencies on Windows,
> however, that need to be worked around. I have had some local hacks for that
> for a while, and I took a moment to clean them up and make them presentable,
> so here they are. Interested?
>
> To test, apply the patch and run perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .
$ perl src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl .
Warning: no config.pl found, using default.
Unable to determine Visual Studio version: The nmake command wasn't
found. at /home/ioltas/git/postgres/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm line 92.
Is that the expected result?
--
Michael
