Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-04T18:53:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On 02/04/2014 09:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> My own opinion is that I've already wasted untold man-hours thanks to
>> the random porting problems induced by Windows, a platform that I never
>> have and never will care about personally.  I will *not* spend my own
>> time doing tests that someone else could do.  If we can't get some
>> effort contributed by someone who does use that platform, I'm personally
>> prepared to declare the entire damn thing no longer supported.

> Although that is obviously your prerogative it is important to remember 
> that Windows is easily the second most used version of PostgreSQL out 
> there (behind Linux).

[ shrug... ]  If it's so widely used, why is it so hard to find somebody
who's willing to put in some development effort for it?

			regards, tom lane