Re: Visual Studio 2010/Windows SDK 7.1 support

thready wrote:
[...]
> I don't know how to apply this patch.  What's the exe that runs this
> patch?  Will it ask me where the source folder root is when I run it?
As the archives seem to be unreachable at the moment I'm copying text 
from the following message which I would otherwise ask you to read:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4E2813EC.2050505@gmx.de

<CITATION>
In short (for the records): download and install msysgit from 
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
Open git bash and cd into an empty directory like:
cd c:
mkdir pgdev
cd pgdev

Clone the postgresql repository:
git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
cd postgresql

Copy the patch (the part with the strange perl-like text  of the 
message) from 
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4E14FD1A.8080703@gmx.de and 
save it to a file (like VS2010v9.patch) which you put into the directory 
which contains your newly created repository (c:\pgdev).

Apply the Patch:
patch -Ec -p 1 -i ../VS2010v9.patch
(which doesn't seem to apply cleanly anymore which will break things for 
you - but I currently have no time to fix it)

Put bison and flex into your path like:
echo "\$ENV{PATH}=\$ENV{PATH} . ';C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin';" > 
src/tools/msvc/buildenv.pl
(you might have to adopt the path)

Open a Visual Studio 2010 command prompt and cd into the src/tools/msvc 
directory of your repository like:
cd C:\pgdev\postgresql\src\tools\msvc

Start the build:
build.bat
</CITATION>

Please use the commitfest app 
(https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=523) to find out 
about the current state of the patch and to get the latest version.

If you have problems applying the patch when copied from the archives 
(v10 - 
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4E837B20.4020502@gmx.de), 
please drop me a line and I'll send you the latest version off list.

Regards,

Brar