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From: Bill Smith <[email protected]>
To: Mark Hill <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:11:02 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR05MB50804D159417384219A449D3EE402@BYAPR05MB5080.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
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> On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Mark Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded the Postgresql 17.0 and the extracted directory postgresql-17.0/src/tools does not contain
> the “msvc” directory as it has since I’ve been building Postgres 12, 14, and 16.   How am I supposed to build
> PostgreSQL for Windows now?   I’m not sure what msvc_gendef.pl does.   How do we build Postgres for Windows
> using Visual Studio?
> 

You’ll want to use meson to build PG.  See the docs here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html#INSTALLATION-NOTES-VISUAL-S...
17.7. Platform-Specific Notes
postgresql.org

> Thanks, Mark



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