Re: Are postgresql-9.4 binaries available on Windows XP?

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From: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Are postgresql-9.4 binaries available on Windows XP?
Date: 2014-08-22 03:45:39
Message-ID: 53F6BCE3.6010606@tpf.co.jp
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Hi Dave and Andrew,

I recently noticed the thread
[BUGS] BUG #11039: installation fails when trying to install C++
redistributable .

Unfortunately I have no XP machine at hand and can't test the
installer by myself.

Looking at the binaries in the package, they seem to be built using
Visual Studio 2013. I'm suspicious if the binaries are available on
Windows XP.

If I recognize correctly, Visual Studio 2012 or later doesn't support
Windows XP by default and Platform Toolset v120_xp (or v110_xp) must
be specified so as to build binaries guaranteed to be avaiable on
Windows XP. However MSBuildProject.pm seems to specify v120 (or v110) as
the PlarformToolset property. Is it intentional?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue


From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Are postgresql-9.4 binaries available on Windows XP?
Date: 2014-08-22 09:11:06
Message-ID: CA+OCxozOiosceStccDEX3Z4L_J8whvW1e5zX2QUMeR+Wv2n9Cg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Hi Dave and Andrew,
>
> I recently noticed the thread
> [BUGS] BUG #11039: installation fails when trying to install C++
> redistributable .
>
> Unfortunately I have no XP machine at hand and can't test the
> installer by myself.
>
> Looking at the binaries in the package, they seem to be built using
> Visual Studio 2013. I'm suspicious if the binaries are available on
> Windows XP.
>
> If I recognize correctly, Visual Studio 2012 or later doesn't support
> Windows XP by default and Platform Toolset v120_xp (or v110_xp) must
> be specified so as to build binaries guaranteed to be avaiable on
> Windows XP. However MSBuildProject.pm seems to specify v120 (or v110) as
> the PlarformToolset property. Is it intentional?

I can't say whether that was an intentional change or not as I wasn't
involved in writing that patch, but I can say that EDB will not be
supporting Windows XP for our future builds now that it's been
(finally) made obsolete by Microsoft when extended support ended in
April.

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