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Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-04T16:06:52Z
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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

On 02/04/2014 10:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2014-02-04 02:10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Meh.  It might be that the DateStyle usage in postgres_fdw would
>>> accidentally fail to malfunction if it saw a bogus value of the variable.
>>> But it's hard to believe that this would be true of MainLWLockArray.
>> There's not that much lwlock usage in contrib. It's just
>> pg_stat_statements and pg_buffercache. Neither has tests... So it very
>> well could be that breakage simply hasn't been observed.
> Hm, you're right --- I'd have thought there were more of those.
>
> Ugh.  This problem was bad enough when I thought that it would only lead
> to link-time errors detectable in the buildfarm.  If it can lead to errors
> only observable at runtime --- and maybe not obvious even then --- then
> I think we *have to* do something about it.  By that I mean that we must
> get rid of the need to manually plaster PGDLLIMPORT on global variables.
>
> Anybody with a Windows build environment want to test the "#define extern"
> trick?
>
> 			



We have details on how to build with Mingw/Msys on Windows on an Amazon 
VM <http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Building_With_MinGW> which is either 
free or very cheap. Do I need to give instructions on how to do this for 
MSVC builds too? It's really not terribly hard.


cheers

andrew