Re: Building Postgres with lz4 on Visual Studio - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Building Postgres with lz4 on Visual Studio
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Msg-id 20220430203349.evi6yuyl7fduuksw@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Building Postgres with lz4 on Visual Studio  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Hi,

On 2022-04-29 08:50:56 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree that we should use perl's -e to test that the files actually
> exists. But I don't think we should try to adjust to everything the zstd
> and lz4 people put in their release files. They are just horribly
> inconsistent.

Right now it's the source of packages we document for windows... It doesn't
seem that crazy to accept a few different paths with a glob or such?


> What I did was to install the packages using vcpkg[1] which is a
> standard framework created by Microsoft for installing package
> libraries. It does install the .lib files in a sane place
> (installdir/lib), but it doesn't use the lib suffix. Also it names the
> lib file for zlib differently.

That doesn't seem much better :(

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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