Hi,
On November 8, 2025 4:40:26 PM EST, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> On 31.10.25 14:31, Bryan Green wrote:
>> > The real question is MinGW. If we still support MinGW builds targeting
>> > the old MSVCRT, those need the environ declaration. If we require MinGW
>> > with UCRT, we don't. You'd need something like "#if defined(MINGW32)
>> > && !defined(_UCRT)" to distinguish them, if it matters.
>>
>> As of commit 1758d424461 (PG18) we require UCRT if using MinGW.
>>
>> I don't know if we still support MSVCRT if using MSVC, or how long we
>> still need to support it. (Or, for example, how to tell which variant
>> CI or the buildfarm uses.)
>
>The main CI task and build farm animal fairywren use UCRT, so there is
>no automated test coverage for the old runtime and hasn't been for
>some time, and that's also the default with that toolchain these day.
>There is still one place that builds (without running) against MSVCRT
>in CI: the CompilerWarnings mingw cross-compilation task that runs on
>Debian.
Pretty sure it's now using ucrt too, that had to be changed as part of the update to Trixie, otherwise the builds would
fail.
Andres
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