Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Build with Visual Studio &

VC++6.0 isn't a very good compiler and it's not very compatible with
gcc, while Visual Studio 2005 compiler is much more compatible and has a
better optimizer.

Plus, VC++6.0 had a closed "proprietary" data format for .dsp and .dsw
files, while the current Visual Studio uses a standard XML format.

Finally, Microsoft gives away (as in free, no cost) Visual C++ Express
edition, which includes the current compiler.

I don't see any reason we'd want to target VC++6.0.

P.s. With the current Visual Studio, it's easy to add Bison and Flex
custom rules, so that it automatically calls them for .y and .l files.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:42 AM
To: Gurjeet Singh; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; uniware(at)zedware(dot)org;
Chuck McDevitt
Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Build with Visual Studio &
MSVC

> Hi William(uniware), Chuck and Hackers,
>
> I have been interested in doing complete PGSQL
> development in MSVC for a long time now. With reference to
> one of Chuck's mails to
> -hackers-win32 with the same subject, you said that you were
> able to successfully compile PG 8.1 with some minor tweaks.
>
> Also, William has 'vcproject' hosted on pgfoundry, I
> downloaded it, and tried compiling
> vcproject\msvc\postgres\postgres.dsw on
> VC++6.0. It failed miserably with over 1000 errors. I am sure there's
> some tweaks needed here too!!!

Yes. There is a patch pending on -patches which fix almost all of these
in HEAD. (There are a few tiny things related to perl and NLS that
aren't included in it ATM. And I'm just assuming you're seeing the same
problems as I was but I didn't base my work off vcproject). I'm also
working on a buildscript to convert the Makefiles to visual c++ project
files, but that's not quite done yet. The idea with this work is to have
the stuff as integrated as possible with main CVS, so the maintenance
will be as low as possible - unlike the vcproject project which has been
focusing on keeping a separate build environment maintained.

The target is VC++ 2003 and 2005 ATM, but it should just be a matter of
a different output format for VC 6.0 I guess.

You will still need things like bison and flex if you want to build off
cvs, of course - there is no builtin support for that in VC++.

//Magnus