Re: Win32 port - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Win32 port
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Msg-id 3DC967C9.46A7E39A@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Win32 port  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Jan Wieck writes:
> >
> > > To Hannu: the Windows port we did here depends on MS VC++ features like
> > > the ability to specify in the project to substitute header files. I
> > > don't know much about MingW and if you can do things like that with it.
> >
> > Before long someone will port the Windows port to MinGW, so we should
> > resist attempts to use compiler-specific features in the same way that we
> > tend not to use vendors specific features in other ports.
> 
> Agreed.  I will make as clean a patch as possible.  I think it is
> doable.

The thing with this particular feature was not to touch almost every
source file in the whole tree. The headers to #include in a clean Win32
world are totally different from what you #include in Unix.


Jan

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