Thanks Bill! Do you have a sample meson command for building that you could share?
Thanks, Mark From: Bill Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 4:11 PM To: Mark Hill <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: msvc directory missing in PostgreSQL 17.0 EXTERNAL On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:05 PM, Mark Hill <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I just downloaded the Postgresql 17.0 and the extracted directory postgresql-17.0/src/tools does not contain the “msvc” directory as it has since I’ve been building Postgres 12, 14, and 16. How am I supposed to build PostgreSQL for Windows now? I’m not sure what msvc_gendef.pl does. How do we build Postgres for Windows using Visual Studio? You’ll want to use meson to build PG. See the docs here: [cid:[email protected]] 17.7. Platform-Specific Notes<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html%23INSTALLATION-NOTES-VISUAL-STUDIO___.YzJ1OnNhc2luc3RpdHV0ZTpjOm86OWJiYTkyOGQ4NDg2ZWRhYjhlMjJkNGUzOGNmNjgxYjc6NzowNDYzOmRlNGQ2ZGI4MWYwNTVhNDUzM2Q4ZTc2NWYwZGJlMzQyMGI1YjE3ZDc4MWJjOTY2YTE0ZjAwMTg1ZDE0NjYxOWM6aDpUOk4> postgresql.org<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html%23INSTALLATION-NOTES-VISUAL-STUDIO___.YzJ1OnNhc2luc3RpdHV0ZTpjOm86OWJiYTkyOGQ4NDg2ZWRhYjhlMjJkNGUzOGNmNjgxYjc6Nzo3ZjViOmI0YTgyMGRhMTA2MGY4NDE0OTcyOGQxMWU0MDA4MmE1ZWMzMjg1YjM4YTY2ZjBhZTQwMmZjOGYzNTE1MzNjYzU6aDpUOk4> Thanks, Mark
