On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Aditya Nugraha <vortexilation@gmail.com> writes:
>> When trying to compile postgresql 9.6.7 with Visual Studio 15.5.6,
>> i am getting errors at these following line :
>> src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c(927): error C2037: left of
>> 'locale_name' specifies undefined struct/union '__crt_lo
>> cale_data'
[C:\Users\nameless\Documents\Works\Compiling\pgwininstall\builddir\postgresql\postgresql-9.6.7\postgres.vcxpr
>> oj]
>> src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c(928): error C2198: 'wchar2char':
>> too few arguments for call [C:\Users\nameless\Docum
>> ents\Works\Compiling\pgwininstall\builddir\postgresql\postgresql-9.6.7\postgres.vcxproj]
>
> This was previously discussed here:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CANFyU959RRvAqmrGvLor%3Dgo3PSi4LdYcjDw8TQ6YRvzpouZrog%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Apparently Microsoft have changed their APIs in VS2015. Somebody needs to
> figure out what's the approved way now to get the locale name out of a
> _locale_t object.
[Not a Windows person, just curious]
I wonder if the result of ResolveLocaleName("foo", output_buffer,
output_buffer_size) would be the same as
locale->locinfo->local_name[LC_TYPE] on the result of
_create_locale(LC_CTYPE, "foo").
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd319112(v=vs.85).aspx
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