CMake/MSVC Support

[Regina Obe]

We had debates about it a long time ago, but none of us were interested in putting in the effort to make it work

and those that did put in effort dropped a half done patch and left.

 

Even though I’m a windows user, I don’t like using MSVC except when I’m forced to 

so I’m personally not interested in working on CMake just to support MSVC.

 

If we go any route, it would be most likely Meson to be in line with PostgreSQL proper which does support MSVC in their Meson tooling.

But this is my VERY VERY opinionated rehash of history that has passed.

 

Anyone else want to give an alternative view of our CMake past history discussions.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

 

From: Will Bowers <wbowers314 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 8:00 PM
To: postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: CMake/MSVC Support

 

Hello,

 

I was wondering if PostGIS has any current, past, or planned support for CMake? I have seen some old forks of PostGIS with some CMake project files. I also saw some very old posts talking about building PostGIS with CMake, but I don't see anything up to date on the subject.

 

My ultimate goal is to get PostGIS building with MSVC as well.

 

Let me know if you have any resources for me, or if you are interested in someone getting this working!

Will

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