Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson - v12

On 31.08.22 20:11, Andres Freund wrote:
>> src/port/win32ver.rc.in: This is redundant with src/port/win32ver.rc.
>> (Note that the latter is also used as an input file for text
>> substitution.  So having another file named *.in next to it would be
>> super confusing.)
> Yea, this stuff isn't great. I think the better solution, both for meson and
> for configure, would be to move to do all the substitution to the C
> preprocessor.

Yeah, I think if we can get rid of the evil date-based versioning, then
this could be done like

diff --git a/src/makefiles/Makefile.win32 b/src/makefiles/Makefile.win32
index 17d6819644..609156382f 100644
--- a/src/makefiles/Makefile.win32
+++ b/src/makefiles/Makefile.win32
@@ -65,21 +65,12 @@ endif
  # win32ver.rc or furnish a rule for generating one.  Set $(PGFILEDESC) to
  # signal win32ver.rc availability to the dll build rule below.
  ifndef PGXS
-win32ver.rc: $(top_srcdir)/src/port/win32ver.rc
-   sed -e 's;FILEDESC;$(PGFILEDESC);' \
-       -e 's;VFT_APP;$(PGFTYPE);' \
-       -e 's;_ICO_;$(PGICOSTR);' \
-       -e 's;\(VERSION.*\),0 *$$;\1,'`date '+%y%j' | sed 's/^0*//'`';' \
-       -e '/_INTERNAL_NAME_/$(if $(shlib),s;_INTERNAL_NAME_;"$(basename $(shlib))";,d)' \
-       -e '/_ORIGINAL_NAME_/$(if $(shlib),s;_ORIGINAL_NAME_;"$(shlib)";,d)' \
-     $< >$@
-
  # Depend on Makefile.global to force rebuild on re-run of configure.
  win32ver.rc: $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
  endif

-win32ver.o: win32ver.rc
-   $(WINDRES) -i $< -o $@ --include-dir=$(top_builddir)/src/include --include-dir=$(srcdir)
+win32ver.o: $(top_srcdir)/src/port/win32ver.rc
+   $(WINDRES) -i $< -o $@ --include-dir=$(top_builddir)/src/include --include-dir=$(srcdir) -D FILEDESC=$(PGFILEDESC)
-DVFT_APP=$(PGFTYPE) -D_ICO_=$(PGICOSTR) -D_INTERNAL_NAME_=$(if $(shlib),s;_INTERNAL_NAME_;"$(basename $(shlib))";,d)
-D_ORIGINAL_NAME_=$(if$(shlib),s;_ORIGINAL_NAME_;"$(shlib)";,d)
 


Probably needs some careful checking of the quoting.  But that should be
the right thing in principle.