On 7/19/19 5:51 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> I'm also very curious on how hamerkop and bowerbird build postgres with
>> VS2017. Looks like hamerkop and bowerbird both exist before VS2017
>> and maybe they get SDK v8.1 from previous VS installations. I will
>> contact admin of hamerkop and bowerbird and see if that's the case.
>> As of now I can still encounter the same issue with fresh installed
>> Windows Server 2016 and VS2017, on both azure and google cloud. So
>> better to patch the build system anyway.
> I guess so but I cannot confirm myself. I am adding Andrew and Hari
> in CC to double-check if they have seen this problem or not. Hari has
> also worked on porting VS 2017 and 2019 in the MSVC scripts in the
> tree.
My tests of the VS2017 stuff used this install mechanism on a fresh
Windows instance:
choco install -y visualstudio2017-workload-vctools --package-parameters
"--includeOptional"
This installed Windows Kits 8.1 and 10, among many other things.
cheers
andrew
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