Re: Extensions User Design

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Dimitri Fontaine<dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> PGXS is essentially useless on Windows unless you're compiling your
>> own code using Mingw/msys, which will be a miniscule percentage of
>> users. Our installers for 8.3 and above are all built using VC++.
>
> I guess we'll have to see how the windows world installers are
> comparable / compatible with PGXS here, I confess I know nothing about
> them...
>
> Is it possible to design this part of the extension system with only
> PGXS in mind and later adapt the windows toolsuite?

Anything is possible :-). Better to ask someone with more perl
expertise than me how much effort it might take to have the VC++ build
system be able to create a project from an arbitrary PGXS makefile.
Andrew or Magnus would seem the obvious people.

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Dave Page
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