Re: Building Windows Server Extensions Using VC++ 2005

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the feedback. The reason for building extensions with MSVC
on windows is to get access to the Micrsoft debugging tools since as far
as I can see MingW/GDB cannot debug dynamically loaded dlls on the
Windows platform (or at least I haven't succeeded at doing it).

Anyway, with the few minor tweaks mentioned this seems to work fine. I
guess I would be surprised if it didn't since MinGW is commonly used for
both creating and using DLLs on the Windows platform that integrate with
programs and dlls built with VC++. Other examples that work fine are
building extensions for Python and Ruby using MingW, when both runtimes
are built with VC++ (so the opposite case). Of course, this
compatibility might just be limited to the MinGW / VC++ combination, but
that's all you need for this to work.

Charlie

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
>
>> The problem here is that the backend is built with mingw but the
>> extension with msvc.
>>
>
> I don't think that it's very reasonable to expect that to work.
> The two compilers very likely have different rules for struct
> packing, to take just the first gotcha. Maybe they are compatible
> enough that it will work, but if it does not we cannot fix it.
>
> regards, tom lane
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