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Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>

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From: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-13T06:51:17Z
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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

(2014/02/13 8:21), Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 02/12/2014 02:31 PM, Inoue, Hiroshi wrote:
>>> Maybe this is one of the few use cases of dlltool.
>>> Because python doesn't ship with its MINGW import library, the
>>> Makefile uses dlltool to generate an import library from the python
>>> DLL.
> 
>> Wow. Has anyone been in touch with the Python package maintainers to see
>> if they can fix that and bundle the .lib ?
> 
> Indeed somebody should pester them about that, but it's not clear how
> much it'd help us even if they fixed it tomorrow.  We're going to have
> to be able to build with existing Python distributions for a long time
> to come.

Though the comment in src/pl/plpython/Makefile refers to it, I see
libpython27.a in Python27. I can't find it in Python25.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue