Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio

[Greg Landrum <greg(dot)landrum(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:25:27 -0500, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> 
> Do we actually support building backend extensions with anything other
> than our standard build environment? I know we support building libpq
> using MSVC, but that is for client use. I'm not even mildly surprised
> that building a backend extension with MSVC breaks.

This goes a long way towards answering my question. 

So given that I want to work with backend extensions on windows, I
need to pull down a copy of mingw and use that?

-greg