Re: Recent refactoring broke VC++ 2005 EE

Milen A. Radev wrote:
> Marcos Alves T. de Azevedo написа:
>> Milen, here your fist TIP: Do not use Drugs (Microsoft), and you will be
>> fine.
>
> (I'll ignore the sensible advice to "not feed the trolls".)
>
> - The recommended way to build pgAdmin for Windows is by using VS 2005
> (http://www.pgadmin.org/download/source.php).

It certainly is - largely because it's about the best development
environment out there. It doesn't matter what you think of Microsoft,
Visual Studio is an excellent environment for development and debugging
- far better in my view than Eclipse, Kdevelop or XCode.

Anyway, I've just committed another refactoring patch which also removes
the solution folders. I was echoing the entire source tree in the
solution explorer which was looking very useful, but unfortunately I
think we'll have to do without that :-(

> That said - could you help me with advice how to set up a development
> environment for building pgAdmin for windows using MinGW for example?
> Or using cross-compilation?

Patches to support Mingw (again - it got broken years back) are welcome.

BTW - there's more refactoring coming up - you might want to hold off on
any complex merges. I'm trying to get this all done as quickly as possible.

Regards, Dave.