Re: VS2022: Support Visual Studio 2022 on Windows

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:00:19AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> It's extremely unlikely that we'd shift to such a new version for PG15. We
> build many components aside from PostgreSQL, and need to use the same
> toolchain for all of them (we've had very painful experiences with mix n
> match CRT versions in the past) so it's not just PG that needs to support
> VS2022 as far as we're concerned

Yes, I can understand that upgrading the base version of VS used is a
very difficult exercise.  I have been through that, on Windows for
Postgres..  As well as for the compilation of all its dependencies.

> - Perl, Python, TCL, MIT Kerberos,
> OpenSSL, libxml2, libxslt etc. are all built with the same toolchain for
> consistency.

Dave, do you include LZ4 in 14?  Just asking, as a matter of
curiosity.

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14\bin>pg_config
BINDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/bin
DOCDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/doc
HTMLDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/doc
INCLUDEDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/include
PKGINCLUDEDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/include
INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/include/server
LIBDIR = C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14/lib
PKGLIBDIR = C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14/lib
LOCALEDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/share/locale
MANDIR = C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14/man
SHAREDIR = C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/14/share
SYSCONFDIR = C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14/etc
PGXS = C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
CONFIGURE = --enable-thread-safety --enable-nls --with-ldap --with-ssl=openssl --with-uuid --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-lz4 --with-icu --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python
CC = not recorded
CPPFLAGS = not recorded
CFLAGS = not recorded
CFLAGS_SL = not recorded
LDFLAGS = not recorded
LDFLAGS_EX = not recorded
LDFLAGS_SL = not recorded
LIBS = not recorded