On 02/03/2014 01:13 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I'm not a fan of MinGW (gcc) on Windows, it's a right pain. It's also
>> the only open source compiler currently supported for PostgreSQL on
>> Windows - practically the only one available. I don't know about you,
>> but I'm not too keen on assuming Microsoft will continue to offer free
>> toolchains that're usable for our purposes. They're crippling their free
>> build tools more and more with each release, which isn't a good trend.
> I was under the impression that Microsoft had finally come around to
> implementing a few C99 features in Visual Studio 2013 precisely
> because they want there to be an open source ecosystem on Windows.
>
>
It's not so long ago that they were saying they would no longer publish
free-as-in-beer command line compilers at all. The outrage made them
change their minds, but we really can't rely on only Microsoft compilers
for Windows.
cheers
andrew