Hi,
On 2022-11-23 20:55:18 -0500, Kirk Wolak wrote:
> Currently I have a lot of it working, but I need to partner up with some of
> the meson guys...
> if it is already close to working, a couple of my tweaks could accelerate
> it.
I just successfully compiled postgres with meson and readline, using msvc,
only tweaking psql_completion() contents.
The readline I used for building with msvc is from
vcpkg.exe install --triplet x64-windows readline-win32 pkgconf
I also installed icu zlib zstd libxml2 libxslt tcl that way, but shouldn't
matter here.
vcpkg is installed in c:/dev/vcpkg
Other steps:
# let meson know where to get pkgconf from, could also add it to PATH
$ENV:PKG_CONFIG="c:/dev/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/tools/pkgconf/pkgconf.exe"
# specify location of pkgconfig files, so meson can get compilation flags
meson setup --buildtype debug -Dpkg_config_path=c:/dev/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/lib/pkgconfig ...
# when running tests, the readline dll needs to be somewhere in PATH
$ENV:PATH="$ENV:PATH;c:/dev/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/debug/bin"
If you want to build an optimized postgres, you'd need to change the
pkg_config_path and PATH so it doesn't include debug/ (this is because of
needing to link to the same CRT).
Greetings,
Andres Freund
Andres,
Thank you for this. We have the build working with meson (w/o readline).
I was not able to get "readline" to be recognized by meson (I've attached the log file)....
It is "there" according to vcpkg. (other projects have a .pc file this one is missing?)
I did take this version of readline, and linked it to my VS sources (the hardway), and recompiled/linked,
and IT WORKS! With Arrow Keys, etc! (although this is like Version 5 of readline)
I am curious why meson is not seeing these packages as installed?
I changed the readline setting in the meson config to "enabled", but since it doesn't "find" them,
it turns it off in the end...
>> Run-time dependency readline found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Strangely it says it used pkgconfig and cmake?
I am very excited to see auto-complete and readline support coming to windows...
Thanks, Kirk
