Re: windows build docs

Following recent discussions and the enabling of 64 bit Mingw builds, I
propose to make the attached changes to the docs. I don't see any great
reason for us to advise against building with Mingw, especially now that
we have 64 bit support for it, so I removed that, amd also clarified
where Cygwin is useful and where it's not, as well as adding some detail
about how to make 64 bit builds.

cheers

andrew

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:14, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Following recent discussions and the enabling of 64 bit Mingw builds, I
> propose to make the attached changes to the docs. I don't see any great
> reason for us to advise against building with Mingw, especially now that we
> have 64 bit support for it, so I removed that, amd also clarified where
> Cygwin is useful and where it's not, as well as adding some detail about how
> to make 64 bit builds.

Agreed, and looks good to me.

Do you know if cygwin psql works in non-US locales these days? It used
to be that it didn't, and if we recommend it we should probably
include a notice if it doesn't.

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On 01/31/2011 12:17 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:14, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> Following recent discussions and the enabling of 64 bit Mingw builds, I
>> propose to make the attached changes to the docs. I don't see any great
>> reason for us to advise against building with Mingw, especially now that we
>> have 64 bit support for it, so I removed that, amd also clarified where
>> Cygwin is useful and where it's not, as well as adding some detail about how
>> to make 64 bit builds.
> Agreed, and looks good to me.
>
> Do you know if cygwin psql works in non-US locales these days? It used
> to be that it didn't, and if we recommend it we should probably
> include a notice if it doesn't.

I just tested by setting my machine to fr_FR, and also setting
LANG=fr_FR.utf8 under Cygwin. The build failed. The I set Cygwin back to
LANG=C.utf8 and the build/install succeeded. After that, I switched back
to LANG=fr_FR.utf8, and initdb, pg_ctl start and psql all behaved as
expected. I'm adding a note accordingly.

Some day I'll try to work out why the build went boom, but now I need to
move on to other things.

cheers

andrew

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 19:34, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/31/2011 12:17 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:14, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Following recent discussions and the enabling of 64 bit Mingw builds, I
>>> propose to make the attached changes to the docs. I don't see any great
>>> reason for us to advise against building with Mingw, especially now that
>>> we
>>> have 64 bit support for it, so I removed that, amd also clarified where
>>> Cygwin is useful and where it's not, as well as adding some detail about
>>> how
>>> to make 64 bit builds.
>>
>> Agreed, and looks good to me.
>>
>> Do you know if cygwin psql works in non-US locales these days? It used
>> to be that it didn't, and if we recommend it we should probably
>> include a notice if it doesn't.
>
>
> I just tested by setting my machine to fr_FR, and also setting
> LANG=fr_FR.utf8 under Cygwin. The build failed. The I set Cygwin back to
> LANG=C.utf8 and the build/install succeeded. After that, I switched back to
> LANG=fr_FR.utf8, and initdb, pg_ctl start and psql all behaved as expected.
> I'm adding a note accordingly.
>
> Some day I'll try to work out why the build went boom, but now I need to
> move on to other things.

The thing that *didn't* work for me previously was running it with
*windows* in a different locale. Meaning setting "regional settings"
in the control panel to something like, say, Swedish :-) Or for that
matter, french.

--
 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
 Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

On 01/31/2011 01:51 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just tested by setting my machine to fr_FR, and also setting
>> LANG=fr_FR.utf8 under Cygwin. The build failed. The I set Cygwin back to
>> LANG=C.utf8 and the build/install succeeded. After that, I switched back to
>> LANG=fr_FR.utf8, and initdb, pg_ctl start and psql all behaved as expected.
>> I'm adding a note accordingly.
>>
>> Some day I'll try to work out why the build went boom, but now I need to
>> move on to other things.
> The thing that *didn't* work for me previously was running it with
> *windows* in a different locale. Meaning setting "regional settings"
> in the control panel to something like, say, Swedish :-) Or for that
> matter, french.

Oh. Well, that worked fine for me just now. Maybe it's been fixed.

cheers

andrew

>>> I just tested by setting my machine to fr_FR, and also setting
>>> LANG=fr_FR.utf8 under Cygwin. The build failed. The I set Cygwin back to
>>> LANG=C.utf8 and the build/install succeeded. After that, I switched back
>>> to
>>> LANG=fr_FR.utf8, and initdb, pg_ctl start and psql all behaved as
>>> expected.
>>> I'm adding a note accordingly.
>>>
>>> Some day I'll try to work out why the build went boom, but now I need to
>>> move on to other things.
>>
>> The thing that *didn't* work for me previously was running it with
>> *windows* in a different locale. Meaning setting "regional settings"
>> in the control panel to something like, say, Swedish :-) Or for that
>> matter, french.
>
> Oh. Well, that worked fine for me just now. Maybe it's been fixed.

Great. Doesn't surprise me if it is, it was years ago...

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