Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:54:54 +0100, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Landrum [mailto:greg.landrum@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 29 March 2005 15:52
> > To: Dave Page; pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] writing backend extensions
> > using Visual Studio
> >
> > Maybe a good solution to this is to add an extra option in the
> > installer's development category to include header files for backend
> > development?  That way most people (even those who do front-end
> > development) don't have to deal with having that whole include tree
> > installed, but those who want to do backend work can still get
> > everything required without doing their own build/source installation.
>
> Yeah, that's quite straightforward to do - although, there are that many
> files that it would probably be easier to do a wildcard include anyway
> unless it's a fairly well defined set that's required. In reality I
> doubt most people would care whats in the include/ directory anyway -
> it's the download size I'm more worried about!

For what it's worth, if I zip up the $PGSRC/include directory, the
archive is about 500K.  That seems like a pretty minimal bump to the
17MB installer.

-greg