This fixes at the same time a set of inconsistencies in the
documentation and the scripts related to the versions of Windows SDK
supported.
Author: Haribabu Kommi
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Michael
Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcfqXhfPyMrny9apoDU7M1t59dzVAvoJ9AeAh5BJi+UzA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
In 86d78ef50e01 I enabled configure to check for C99 support, with the
goal of checking which platforms support C99. While there are a few
machines without C99 support among our buildfarm animals,
de-supporting them for v12 was deemed acceptable.
While not tested in aforementioned commit, the biggest increase in
minimum compiler version comes from MSVC, which gained C99 support
fairly late. The subset in MSVC 2013 is sufficient for our needs, at
this point. While that is a significant increase in minimum version,
the existing windows binaries are already built with a new enough
version.
Make configure error out if C99 support could not be detected. For
MSVC builds, increase the minimum version to 2013.
The increase to MSVC 2013 allows us to get rid of VCBuildProject.pm,
as that was only required for MSVC 2005/2008.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97d4b165-192d-3605-749c-f614a0c4e783@2ndquadrant.com
This patch does two things. First, it silences a number of compile-time
warnings in the msvc tools files, mainly those due to the fact that in
some cases we have more than one package per file. Second it supplies a
dummy Perl library with just enough of the Windows API referred to in
our code to let it run these checks cleanly, even on Unix machines where
the code is never supposed to run. The dummy library should only be used
for that purpose, as its README notes.
Adjust the way we detect the locale. As a result the minumum Windows
version supported by VS2015 and later is Windows Vista. Add some tweaks
to remove new compiler warnings. Remove documentation references to the
now obsolete msysGit.
Michael Paquier, somewhat edited by me, reviewed by Christian Ullrich.
Backpatch to 9.5
Code like
open(P, "cl /? 2>&1 |") || die "cl command not found";
does not actually catch any errors, because the exit status of the
command before the pipe is ignored. The fix is to look at $?.
This also gave the opportunity to clean up the logic of this code a bit.
