Re: [GENERAL] Compatibility of libpg

John,

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:38 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/2017 5:44 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
>>
>>
>> But I want to build from MSVC. I already have a solution for it. All I
>> need is to create a project inside that solution which will build the dll
>> and lib files for me.
>>
>> Or I have to use nmake?
>
>
> pretty sure you need to run the top level config script to generate all the
> right stuff, then you probably can have MSVC run the makefile in the libpq
> directory.   I find it easier to just build the whole server, then just use
> the libpq.dll rather than trying to build pieces seperately, as it really
> doesn't take very long.   i believe there are notes on building with MSVC on
> Windows,
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-windows-full.html ...
> I see there are instructions for building libpq only,
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-windows-libpq.html
> but I believe you still need most of the prerequisites as outlined in 17.1.1
> ...   17.1.3 discusses a mkvcbuild.pl which makes a pgsql.sln project(?) for
> Visual Studio

Ok, I tried to build with nmake as suggested by the official documentation.

Two issues:
1. On the build window I got:

[quote]
        link.exe -lib @C:\Users\Igor\AppData\Local\Temp\nm4696.tmp
        rc.exe /l 0x409 /fo".\Release\libpq.res" libpq-dist.rc
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.1.7600.16385
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        link.exe @C:\Users\Igor\AppData\Local\Temp\nm48F9.tmp
   Creating library .\Release\libpqdll.lib and object .\Release\libpqdll.exp
        mt -manifest .\Release\libpq.dll.manifest -outputresource:.\Release\libp
q.dll;2
Microsoft (R) Manifest Tool version 5.2.3790.2076
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation 2005.
All rights reserved.

.\Release\libpq.dll.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse
the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A
\bin\mt.EXE"' : return code '0x1f'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0
\VC\BIN\nmake.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
[/quote]

2. Nevertheless, I did get the libpg.{dll,lib} files.
However, it looks like they are Release mode.

Is there a way to build a Debug version of the libraries?
I'm building my app in Debug mode right now and prefer not to mix the libraries.
Especially since I know Debug and Release version with MSVC link to a
different run-time.