Hi, On 2024-06-18 14:53:53 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > My next task was to extend that to support PostgreSQL 17 and beyond, which > is where I started to run into problems. I've attempted builds using Meson > with each of the dependencies defined in the old-style config.pl, both with > and without modifying the INCLUDE/LIBS envvars to include the directories > for the dependencies (as was found to work in the previous discussion re > zlib): > > Will not successfully configure at all:
Do you have logs for those failures? > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dgssapi=enabled > build-gssapi > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dicu=enabled > build-icu > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dlibxml=enabled > build-libxml > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dlz4=enabled > build-lz4 > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dnls=enabled > build-nls > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Duuid=ossp > build-uuid > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dzstd=enabled > build-zstd > > Configured with modified LIBS/INCLUDE: > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dlibxslt=enabled > build-libxslt > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dssl=openssl > build-openssl > > meson setup --auto-features=disabled > -Dextra_include_dirs=C:\build64\include > -Dextra_lib_dirs=C:\build64\lib;C:\build64\lib64 --wipe -Dzlib=enabled > build-zlib > > I think it's important to note that Meson largely seems to want to use > pkgconfig and cmake to find dependencies. pkgconfig isn't really a thing on > Windows (it is available, but isn't commonly used), and even cmake would > typically rely on finding things in either known installation directories > or through lib/include vars. I am not really following what you mean with the cmake bit here? You can configure additional places to search for cmake files with meson setup --cmake-prefix-path=... > There really aren't standard directories like > /usr/lib or /usr/include as we find on unixes, or pkgconfig files for > everything. Yes, and? Greetings, Andres Freund
