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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: When to drop src/tools/msvc support
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:09:41 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:27 AM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-04-10 19:55:35 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > Projects other than the EDB installers use the MSVC build system - e.g.
> > pgAdmin uses it’s own builds of libpq and other tools (psql, pg_dump etc)
> > that are pretty heavily baked into a fully automated build system (even the
> > build servers and all their requirements are baked into Ansible).
> >
> > Changing that lot would be non-trivial, though certainly possible, and I
> > suspect we’re not the only ones doing that sort of thing.
>
> Do you have a link to the code for that, if it's open? Just to get an
> impression for how hard it'd be to switch over?


The pgadmin docs/readme refers to
https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/tree/master/pkg/win32

It clearly doesn't have the full automation stuff, but appears to have
the parts about building the postgres dependency.

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