On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:49:52AM +0200, Gerhard Häring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently submitted a patch to the pgsql-patches list that adds
> Makefiles for building libpq (and potentially more parts, but I only
> cared about libpq) with mingw32. The current state on win32 is that
> only proprietary Makefiles for M$ Visual C++ are supported.
>
> The powers that be have stated that they'd prefer to integrate the
> native mingw32 build into the existing autoconf-based build process.
>
> I'd like to tackle only the minimum for now: building a native win32
> libpq with Cygwin's mingw32 mode ("-mno-cygwin"). [...]
Unfortunately, I currently don't have the time and motivation to pursue
this any further.
The number of projects that use autoconf to build with mingw32 seems
*very low*. The only one I could find is XEmacs.
Gerhard
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