Not replacing getopt/getopt_long definitely causes issues on mingw. It's not
as clear whether the solaris & openbsd aspect is still needed, but if not, we
should remove it from both autoconf and meson.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220928022724.erzuk5v4ai4b53do@awork3.anarazel.de
I didn't carry this forward from the win32 template. It's not needed anymore
for the reason stated therein, but it turns out to be required to
e.g. override getopt. Possibly a better solution exists, but that's for later.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220928022724.erzuk5v4ai4b53do@awork3.anarazel.de
This fixes a build issue on windows, when the prefix is set to a path with
forward slashes. Windows python defaults to a path with a backslash, but mingw
ucrt python defaults to a forward slash. This in turn lead to a wrong PATH set
during tests, causing tests to fail.
Reported-by: Melih Mutlu <m.melihmutlu@gmail.com>
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220928022724.erzuk5v4ai4b53do@awork3.anarazel.de
While I (Andres) had planned to use relative rpaths, it looks like agreeing on
the precise path might take a bit. So set up absolute rpaths for now.
I'm pushing this fairly quickly after posting the patch as several hackers
fought with this issue.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220927011951.j3h4o7n6bhf7dwau@awork3.anarazel.de
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund