Re: alloca() usage, building master pre-0.95 on Windows

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Forgot to say I tested option 2 successfully and this the last
>> remaining issue to get master to build on Windows.
>>
>
> Well.. a git pull should be enough :)
>
> As is not a standard header I add check on configure scripts and
> included conditionally.

Thanks Frediano.

This allows master to be built on Windows from the files contained in
the nightly tarballs.

I've got it working [1]on Appveyor by using a termporary [2]hack which
downloads these tarballs and so (mis)uses the Git commit
GitHub->Appveyor hook simply as a trigger to build them instead of
building the files just checked out.

To get it to build succesfully directly from a Git checkout the
Windows-specific, Perl-based stage of the build process needs, in
addition to the work you and Larry have been doing, to also create
win332/config.h. I've opened PR [3]#8 with a solution for this.

Once the dust settles I plan to open another thread proposing addition
of Appveyor support in a way similar to what was done for Travis
sometime ago and asking for some minor needed decisions. Work on this
is in progress at [4]

Regards,

1. https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ramiro/freetds/build/76
2. https://github.com/ramiro/freetds/blob/0f076f4d058ae39e61559c770b954022b1d821aa/.appveyor/appveyor.yml#L47
3. https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/pull/8/files
4. https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/compare/master...ramiro:appveyor?expand=1

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Ramiro Morales
@ramiromorales