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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: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:25:11 -0400
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Check out this:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson

There's a table showing the setup & build commands using the old way and the new way (meson).

> On Oct 21, 2024, at 4:12 PM, Mark Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Bill!   Do you have a sample meson command for building that you could share?
> 
> Thanks, Mark
>  
> From: Bill Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 4:11 PM
> To: Mark Hill <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0
>  
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> On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Mark Hill <[email protected] <mailto:[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:
> <image001.png>
> 17.7. Platform-Specific Notes <https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platfo...;
> postgresql.org <https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platfo...;
> 
> 
> Thanks, Mark

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