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authorMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2011-04-15 15:00:42 +0200
committerMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2011-04-15 15:30:14 +0200
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Specify which versions of the Platform SDK are supported
Anything including Visual Studio 2010 compilers is not yet supported for building on Windows.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
index f6d38c1a679..72a700fdcc8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
<para>
There are several different ways of building PostgreSQL on
<productname>Windows</productname>. The simplest way to build with
- Microsoft tools is to install a modern version of the
+ Microsoft tools is to install a supported version of the
<productname>Microsoft Platform SDK</productname> and use use the included
compiler. It is also possible to build with the full
<productname>Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or 2008</productname>. In some cases
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
<para>
PostgreSQL can be built using the Visual C++ compiler suite from Microsoft.
These compilers can be either from <productname>Visual Studio</productname>,
- <productname>Visual Studio Express</productname> or recent versions of the
+ <productname>Visual Studio Express</productname> or some versions of the
<productname>Platform SDK</productname>. If you do not already have a
<productname>Visual Studio</productname> environment set up, the easiest
way us to use the compilers in the <productname>Platform SDK</productname>,
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@
<productname>Visual Studio 2008</productname>. When using the Platform SDK
only, or when building for 64-bit Windows, only
<productname>Visual Studio 2008</productname> is supported.
+ <productname>Visual Studio 2010</productname> is not yet supported.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When building using the <productname>Platform SDK</productname>, versions
+ 6.0 to 7.0 of the SDK are supported. Older or newer versions will not work.
+ In particular, versions from 7.0a and later will not work, since
+ they include compilers from <productname>Visual Studio 2010</productname>.
</para>
<para>