Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

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

Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2014-02-03T14:16:15Z

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MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.
- 53566fc0940c 9.5.0 cited
Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.
- 60ff2fdd9970 9.4.0 cited
Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.
- 846e91e0223c 9.4.0 cited
Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.
- 7d7eee8bb702 9.4.0 cited
Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.
- 708c529c7fde 9.4.0 cited
Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the
- 889f03812916 8.1.0 cited

On 2014-02-03 09:13:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> What we need is to make the Windows platform stop thinking that it is
> the center of the world, and make it act as much as possible like the
> Unix-oid platforms.

What about the completely crazy thing of simply redefining export to
include the declspec on windows for backend build? That will possibly
blow up the size of the .def files et al a bit, but I have little mercy
with that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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