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: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, "Inoue, Hiroshi" <inoue@tpf.co.jp>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2014-02-12T16:26:56Z

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Commits

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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

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-02-12 10:58:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Anybody know *exactly* what --enable-auto-import does?  The name
>> is, um, suggestive.

> My ld(1)'s manpage has three screen's worth of details... Most of it
> seems to be on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ld&sektion=1

> It's essentially elf like shared library linking in pe-coff through
> dirty tricks.

Hm.  So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
the other Windows builds?

			regards, tom lane