Re: Mingw task for Cirrus CI

On 2/25/22 19:27, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew, CCIng you both because you might be interested in the CI bit, and
> because you might know the answer.
>
>
>
>> 2-  src/pl/plpython/Makefile looks under "C:/Windows/system32/" for
>> PYTHONDLL. gendef cannot open that file, give an error like " failed to
>> open()" when creating a .def file.
> On my win10 VM in which I installed python.org python I don't see a python dll
> in c:/windows/system32 either. Looks like none of our windows mingw animals
> build with python. So it might just be bitrot.



There certainly was a time when python from python.org used to install
its DLL in the system32 directory, so I imagine that's why it's there.
I'm very glad to see that's no longer the case.


cheers


andrew

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