Just for fun, I went through PostgreSQL 8.1 and did a complete build using Microsoft’s C and the latest Visual Studio.
With a few minor tweaks, everything compiled with no errors.
My assumption is that because PostgreSQL is a UNIX/Linux-centric project (and gcc/gdb centric), this really isn’t of much interest to anyone.
So other than this e-mail, I don’t plan to do anything with this except for my own amusement.
If I’m wrong, and there is some real interest in supporting MSVC, let me know, and I’ll put some work into cleaning it up and making patches out of it, etc.
Hi Chuck,
We discussed this again on list only the other day in fact! Basically we're not particulalry interested in supporting VS prject files in place of gmake/autoconf, purely because they will undoubtedly cause maintenance headaches as the majority of our developers don't have Windows boxes, let alone a copy of Visual Studio.
However, if you need something to keep yourself amused (unless I can persuade you to come help out with psqlODBC :-) ), we would be interested in patches that allow us to use Microsoft's compiler as an alternative to gcc.
It's interesting to know it built fairly easily though...
Regards, Dave.