Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

Paul Reeves wrote:
> 
>> How to build firebird on Windows (Visual Studio 2005) ? it seems that
>> 2.0.1 don't support VS2005 so let's forget it. 
> 
> No, it is not currently supported, and I don't know of any plans to do so. 
> But feel free to make a contribution :-)

I have it working locally, but the build lacks some compiler-specific 
adjustments. Hopefully, I will commit the VC8 solution files over the 
weekend.

> HEAD (Fb 2.1), does build with VS2005. But you shouldn't start with 
> make_boot. Take a look at run_all.bat. That shows the correct order of 
> execution.
> 
> I've just spent a load of time getting HEAD to build correctly with VS2005 
> for 32 and 64-bit, so if something doesn't work correctly post the 
> problem here. I want to know about it.

Also just compiled 64-bit HEAD from scratch without problems.


Dmitry