Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2014-02-15T19:35:02Z
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Commits

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  1. MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.

  2. Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.

  3. Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.

  4. Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.

  5. Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.

  6. Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Patch attached.

Committed with some cosmetic adjustments --- thanks!

> I am not sure whether HAVE_GETOPT is the best condition
> to use, since it's set by configure by a link based check, same goes for
> HAVE_INT_OPTERR. The other choices would be relying on HAVE_GETOPT_H or
> a new AC_CHECK_DECL.

I'm pretty sure HAVE_GETOPT is *not* what we want to use for the variable
declarations.  I've tried HAVE_GETOPT_H for the moment, but that may need
more tweaking depending on what the buildfarm has to say.

> I haven't touched entab.c because it's not linking with pgport, so there
> seems little use in changing it.

Agreed.  We don't have very high standards for its portability anyway.

> I've also removed some #ifndef WIN32's that didn't seem to make much sense.

They might've been needed at one time, but we'll see.  (I also took out
a few includes of <unistd.h> that were clearly now redundant, though
I didn't try to be thorough about it.)

			regards, tom lane