Re: Building extensions on Windows using VS2008

On 02/20/2011 05:30 AM, deepak wrote:
> Thanks for the information..
>
> However, I'm still unable to figure how to do a clean build of
> extensions on Windows using VS 2008.
>
> To start with, the main contrib module doesn't seem to have a
> nmake-compatible Makefile, and
> I don't seem to find any project under 'contrib' which has a
> Windows-compatible build..

build.pl parses the Makefile to determine the list of sources, etc. 
Essentially, your extension is built using the unix Makefile.  Since 
you've already built Pg its self from sources you will have used 
build.pl to do it (right?) and it'll be easy for you to add the contrib 
module and re-run.

The downside of this approach is that build.pl isn't a complete Makefile 
parser, and is easily confused by anything but the most trivial Makefile 
syntax. I had problems when I was putting the crashdump module together 
because build.pl didn't understand ifndef .

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Craig Ringer