On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 5:25 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
FWIW, I've looked at using either vcpkg or conan to more easily install /
build dependencies on windows, in the right debug / release mode.
The former was easier, but unfortunately the zlib, lz4, ... packages don't include the gzip, lz4 etc binaries right now. That might be easy enough to fix with an option. It does require building the dependencies locally.
Conan seemed to be a nicer architecture, but there's no builtin way to update to newer dependency versions, and non-versioned dependencies don't actually work. It has pre-built dependencies for the common cases.
I will have to do some testing with Conan and see how both compare.
I have found a couple of additional issues when trying to build using Conan, all libraries are static and there aren't any prebuilt packages for MSVC 2022 yet. Also for some specific packages:
- zstd doesn't include the binaries either.
- gettext packages only provides binaries, no libraries, nor headers.
- openssl builds the binaries, but is missing some objects in the libraries (error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol).
- libxml builds the binaries, but is missing some objects in the libraries (error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol).
