Re: Win32 port

Hello Bruce,

Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 8:33:32 PM, you wrote:

BM> Steve Howe wrote:
>> Hello Bruce,
>> 
>> Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 3:19:35 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>> BM> I have copies of Peer Direct's (Jan's company) port of PostgreSQL to
>> BM> Win32, and SRA's port to Win32, and permission to generate a merged
>> BM> patch that can be applied to 7.4.
>> 
>> BM> Now that 7.3 is almost complete, I am going to start work on that.  I
>> BM> will post patches that deal with specific portability issues, like
>> BM> fork/exec and path separator handling, and once reviewed, apply them to
>> BM> the main CVS tree for 7.4.
>> Just wondering, what compiler are they using ?
>> Will it compile using Mingw ?

BM> I think the two projects are using MS C++, but it would be nice for
BM> Mingw to work too.
Or even (free) Borland C++ compiler, but I would be glad just to see
it working with Mingw...
It just makes no sense a free project like
PostgreSQL to be compiled only with a commercial compiler.

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Best regards,Steve Howe                           mailto:howe@carcass.dhs.org