Re: Postgres Win32 build broken?

On 9/1/21 4:00 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 8/31/21 9:52 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 07:49:40PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>>> I'm not a perl specialist and it seems to me that the Win32 build is broken.
>>> The Win32 build is still important because of the 32-bit clients still in
>>> use.
>>> I'm investigating the problem.
>> Being able to see the command you are using for build.pl, your
>> buildenv.pl and/or config.pl, as well as your build dependencies
>> should help to know what's wrong.
>>
>> MSVC builds are tested by various buildfarm members on a daily basis,
>> and nothing is red.  I also have a x86 and x64 configuration with
>> VS2015 that prove to work as of HEAD at de1d4fe, FWIW.  Now, by
>> experience, one could say that N Windows PG developpers finish with at
>> least (N+1) different environments.  Basically Simon Riggs's theorem
>> applied to Windows development..
>
>
> I am seeing the same result as Ranier using VS2017 and VS 2019.
>
>

But not with VS2013. If you need to build 32 bit client libraries, using
an older VS release is probably your best bet.


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