Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v11 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v11
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Msg-id 813d4112-3893-dd9b-f0f4-c3a91261da3d@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v11  (samay sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>)
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On 02.09.22 01:12, samay sharma wrote:
> So, I was thinking of the following structure:
> - Supported Platforms
> - Getting the Source
> - Building with make and autoconf
>    -- Short version
>    -- Requirements
>    -- Installation Procedure and it's subsections
> - Building with Meson
>    -- Short version
>    -- Requirements
>    -- Installation Procedure and it's subsections
> - Post-installation Setup
> - Platform specific notes

I like that.

> As a follow up patch, we could also try to fit the Windows part into 
> this model. We could add a Building with visual C++ or Microsoft windows 
> SDK section. It doesn't have a short version but follows the remaining 
> template of requirements and installation procedure subsections 
> (Building, Cleaning and Installing and Running Regression tests) well.

We were thinking about removing the old Windows build system for PG 16. 
Let's see how that goes.  Otherwise, yes, that would be good as well.



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