On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 00:21, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> AFAIK the only target build environment for Windows right now is MinGW/gcc
> >>
> >> If anyone knows how to get the M$ compilers to work nicely with our build
> >> system that might be interesting, but probably at a later stage.
>
> > MS C compiler usage would require gmake and a whole host of other stuff
> > that doesn't seem worth doing.
>
> Um, good point. Porting our Makefiles to anything but gmake seems
> completely out of the question. So unless someone has a Windows build
> environment that has gmake but not gcc, this is moot.
>
Tom, check out
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2004-01/msg00017.php
Looking at the interix website, they seem to have gmake but no gcc,
which seems to fit into your scenario above. Incedentally they do
distribute a compiled PostgreSQL with their packages, though it's based
on 7.2 according to the author.
Robert Treat
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