I was trying to build the Windows msvc build for the first time and ran into some issues.
The documentation talks about obtaining and using the "Platform SDK". I understand that this is nowadays called the "Windows SDK". Searching for the former on the Microsoft download site doesn't offer anything recent. If my understanding is correct, the documentation should be updated. The file src/tools/msvc/README contains some information that apparently augments the build instructions in the main documentation. It talks about Visual Studio 2005, which is probably outdated, and the section "Notes about Visual Studio Express" talks about some files that my installation doesn't contain, so probably also outdated. That last section should probably be moved into the main documentation, if it's still relevant. Between the main documentation and that README, it also becomes less clear whether the SDK or Visual Studio Express or both are needed. Then the real issue. The build.pl tries to call "vcbuild", which neither the SDK version 7.1 nor the Visual Studio Express 2010 contain anywhere. (There is a vcbuild.dll, but that's it.) Some web searching suggests that vcbuild.exe might have been renamed in the Visual Studio 2010 version. I don't see any buildfarm coverage of that version. So is 2010 supported, and where is the vcbuild program supposed to come from? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers