Hi
I'm working on updating the build of PostgreSQL that pgAdmin uses in its Windows installers to use Meson ready for the v17 release. I'm using Visual Studio 2022, on Windows Server 2022.
I've been unable to persuade Meson to detect zlib, whilst OpenSSL seems to be fine.
The dependencies have been built and installed as follows:
mkdir c:\build64
wget
https://zlib.net/zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz tar -zxvf zlib-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.3.2
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/build64/zlib -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" .
msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release
msbuild RUN_TESTS.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release
msbuild INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release
cd ..
wget
https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.13.tar.gz tar -zxvf openssl-3.0.13.tar.gz
cd openssl-3.0.013
perl Configure VC-WIN64A no-asm --prefix=C:\build64\openssl no-ssl3 no-comp
nmake
nmake test
nmake install
cd ..
This results in the following headers and libraries being installed for zlib:
C:\Users\dpage\git\postgresql>dir C:\build64\zlib\include
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3AAD-5864
Directory of C:\build64\zlib\include
17/05/2024 15:56 <DIR> .
17/05/2024 15:56 <DIR> ..
17/05/2024 15:54 17,096 zconf.h
22/01/2024 19:32 96,829 zlib.h
2 File(s) 113,925 bytes
2 Dir(s) 98,842,726,400 bytes free
C:\Users\dpage\git\postgresql>dir C:\build64\zlib\lib
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3AAD-5864
Directory of C:\build64\zlib\lib
17/05/2024 17:01 <DIR> .
17/05/2024 15:56 <DIR> ..
17/05/2024 15:55 16,638 zlib.lib
17/05/2024 15:55 184,458 zlibstatic.lib
2 File(s) 201,096 bytes
2 Dir(s) 98,842,726,400 bytes free
I then attempt to build PostgreSQL:
meson setup build -Dextra_include_dirs=C:/build64/openssl/include,C:/build64/zlib/include -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:/build64/openssl/lib,C:/build64/zlib/lib -Dssl=openssl -Dzlib=enabled --prefix=c:/build64/pgsql
Which results in the output in output.txt, indicating that OpenSSL was correctly found, but zlib was not. I've also attached the meson log.
I have very little experience with Meson, and even less interpreting it's logs, but it seems to me that it's not including the extra lib and include directories when it runs the test compile, given the command line it's reporting:
cl C:\Users\dpage\git\postgresql\build\meson-private\tmpg_h4xcue\testfile.c /nologo /showIncludes /utf-8 /EP /nologo /showIncludes /utf-8 /EP /Od /Oi-
Bug, or am I doing something silly?