On 11/11/2010 11:43 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Thanks - installed.
>>
>>> As a matter of policy, I do not want to drop support for a FOSS
>>> build tool
>>> chain on Windows if at all avoidable.
>>
>> Nor I, however I only have limited time to dedicate to that goal.
>
> One thing to think about is that since PostGIS uses MingW/PGXS on
> Windows, we use MingW builds in order to generate the Makefiles we
> need (there is no native MSVC build for Windows). Not being able to do
> this would cause us great inconvenience :(
>
>
>
Interesting. Doesn't EDB's PostgresPlus package include PostGIS, and
isn't its Windows version build with MSVC?
cheers
andrew
