Re: [PATCH] Remove useless USE_PGXS support in contrib

On 06/19/2013 04:47 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Not true - you're forgetting there is no pgxs for MSVC builds.
> Oh, indeed, totally forgot about that.
>
>> If we're going to enable building of contrib modules using pgxs but without
>> an install we will make targets for that, and buildfarm support.
> So we would need some kind of windows only pgxs.pl script?


Well, MSVC support and buildfarm support are two separate issues.

For out of tree MSVC builds we would probably need to install a 
substantial part of src/tools/msvc, and have a script that could 
generate a Project and so on. I'm happy to help but it probably needs 
someone with a deeper knowledge than I have of the internal workings of 
MSVC project files to build it.

It's worth doing - I know some people who find this a major barrier.

cheers

andrew