diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm
index 05435c4059..47ec46fbde 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ sub new {
         guid            => Win32::GuidGen(),
         files           => {},
         references      => [],
-        libraries       => '',
+        libraries       => [],
+        suffixlib       => [],
         includes        => '',
         defines         => ';',
 		solution        => $solution,
@@ -86,12 +87,12 @@ sub AddReference {
 }
 
 sub AddLibrary {
-	my ($self, $lib) = @_;
+	my ($self, $lib, $dbgsuffix) = @_;
 
-	if ($self->{libraries} ne '') {
-		$self->{libraries} .= ' ';
+	push @{$self->{libraries}}, $lib;
+	if ($dbgsuffix) {
+		push @{$self->{suffixlib}}, $lib;
 	}
-	$self->{libraries} .= $lib;
 }
 
 sub AddIncludeDir {
@@ -351,7 +352,19 @@ sub WriteConfiguration
 {
 	my ($self, $f, $cfgname, $p) = @_;
 	my $cfgtype = ($self->{type} eq "exe")?1:($self->{type} eq "dll"?2:4);
-	my $libs = $self->{libraries};
+	my $libcfg = (uc $cfgname eq "RELEASE")?"MD":"MDd";
+	my $libs = '';
+	foreach my $lib (@{$self->{libraries}}) {
+		my $xlib = $lib;
+		foreach my $slib (@{$self->{suffixlib}}) {
+			if ($slib eq $lib) {
+				$xlib =~ s/\.lib$/$libcfg.lib/;
+				last;
+			}
+		}
+		$libs .= $xlib . " ";
+	}
+	$libs =~ s/ $//;
 	$libs =~ s/__CFGNAME__/$cfgname/g;
 	print $f <<EOF;
   <Configuration Name="$cfgname|Win32" OutputDirectory=".\\$cfgname\\$self->{name}" IntermediateDirectory=".\\$cfgname\\$self->{name}"
diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
index 1373007501..104edfd2d9 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ sub GenerateFiles {
 		print O "#define USE_SSL 1\n" if ($self->{options}->{openssl});
 		print O "#define ENABLE_NLS 1\n" if ($self->{options}->{nls});
 		print O "#define LOCALEDIR \"/usr/local/pgsql/share/locale\"\n" if ($self->{options}->{nls});
-		if ($self->{options}->{nls}) {
+		if ($self->{options}->{krb5}) {
 			print O "#define KRB5 1\n";
 			print O "#define HAVE_KRB5_ERROR_TEXT_DATA 1\n";
 			print O "#define HAVE_KRB5_TICKET_ENC_PART2 1\n";
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ sub AddProject {
 	}
 	if ($self->{options}->{openssl}) {
 		$proj->AddIncludeDir($self->{options}->{openssl} . '\include');
-		$proj->AddLibrary($self->{options}->{openssl} . '\lib\VC\ssleay32.lib');
-		$proj->AddLibrary($self->{options}->{openssl} . '\lib\VC\libeay32.lib');
+		$proj->AddLibrary($self->{options}->{openssl} . '\lib\VC\ssleay32.lib', 1);
+		$proj->AddLibrary($self->{options}->{openssl} . '\lib\VC\libeay32.lib', 1);
 	}
 	if ($self->{options}->{nls}) {
 		$proj->AddIncludeDir($self->{options}->{nls} . '\include');
diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/config.pl b/src/tools/msvc/config.pl
index f6ece40d07..56de6139c1 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/config.pl
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/config.pl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ our $config = {
 	asserts=>1,			# --enable-cassert
 	nls=>undef,				# --enable-nls=<path>
 	tcl=>'c:\tcl',		# --with-tls=<path>
-	perl=>1, 			# --with-perl
+	perl=>'c:\perl', 			# --with-perl
 	python=>'c:\python24', # --with-python=<path>
 	krb5=>'c:\prog\pgsql\depend\krb5', # --with-krb5=<path>
 	ldap=>1,			# --with-ldap
diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl b/src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl
index 6fc246f9a5..ec3e326ac5 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/mkvcbuild.pl
@@ -47,24 +47,23 @@ $plpgsql->AddFiles('src\pl\plpgsql\src','scan.l','gram.y');
 $plpgsql->AddReference($postgres);
 
 if ($solution->{options}->{perl}) {
-# Already running in perl, so use the version that we already have information for.
-	use Config;
 	my $plperl = $solution->AddProject('plperl','dll','PLs','src\pl\plperl');
-	$plperl->AddIncludeDir($Config{archlibexp} . '\CORE');
+	$plperl->AddIncludeDir($solution->{options}->{perl} . '/lib/CORE');
 	$plperl->AddDefine('PLPERL_HAVE_UID_GID');
 	if (Solution::IsNewer('src\pl\plperl\SPI.c','src\pl\plperl\SPI.xs')) {
 		print 'Building src\pl\plperl\SPI.c...' . "\n";
-		system('perl ' . $Config{privlibexp} . '/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap ' . $Config{privlibexp} . '/ExtUtils/typemap src\pl\plperl\SPI.xs >src\pl\plperl\SPI.c');
+		system($solution->{options}->{perl} . '/bin/perl ' . $solution->{options}->{perl} . '/lib/COREExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap ' . $solution->{options}->{perl} . '/lib/CORE/ExtUtils/typemap src\pl\plperl\SPI.xs >src\pl\plperl\SPI.c');
 		die 'Failed to create SPI.c' . "\n" if ((!(-f 'src\pl\plperl\SPI.c')) || -z 'src\pl\plperl\SPI.c');
 	}
 	$plperl->AddReference($postgres);
-	$plperl->AddLibrary($Config{archlibexp} . '\CORE\perl58.lib');
+	$plperl->AddLibrary($solution->{options}->{perl} . '\lib\CORE\perl58.lib');
 }
 
 if ($solution->{options}->{python}) {
 	my $plpython = $solution->AddProject('plpython','dll','PLs','src\pl\plpython');
 	$plpython->AddIncludeDir($solution->{options}->{python} . '\include');
-	$plpython->AddLibrary($solution->{options}->{python} . '\Libs\python24.lib');
+	$solution->{options}->{python} =~ /\\Python(\d{2})/i || croak "Could not determine python version from path";
+	$plpython->AddLibrary($solution->{options}->{python} . "\\Libs\\python$1.lib");
 	$plpython->AddReference($postgres);
 }
 
@@ -125,6 +124,8 @@ my $pgreset = AddSimpleFrontend('pg_resetxlog');
 
 my $pgevent = $solution->AddProject('pgevent','dll','bin');
 $pgevent->AddFiles('src\bin\pgevent','pgevent.c','pgmsgevent.rc');
+$pgevent->AddResourceFile('src\bin\pgevent','Eventlog message formatter');
+$pgevent->RemoveFile('src\bin\pgevent\win32ver.rc');
 $pgevent->UseDef('src\bin\pgevent\pgevent.def');
 
 my $psql = AddSimpleFrontend('psql', 1);