Re: Reduce the number of special cases to build contrib modules on windows

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 5:18 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 22:37, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've attached a rebased patch.
>
> I've rebased this again.
>
> I also moved away from using hash tables for storing references and
> libraries.  I was having some problems getting psql to compile due to
> the order of the dependencies being reversed due to the order being at
> the mercy of Perl's hash function. There's mention of this in
> Makefile.global.in:
>
> # libpq_pgport is for use by client executables (not libraries) that use libpq.
> # We force clients to pull symbols from the non-shared libraries libpgport
> # and libpgcommon rather than pulling some libpgport symbols from libpq just
> # because libpq uses those functions too.  This makes applications less
> # dependent on changes in libpq's usage of pgport (on platforms where we
> # don't have symbol export control for libpq).  To do this we link to
> # pgport before libpq.  This does cause duplicate -lpgport's to appear
> # on client link lines, since that also appears in $(LIBS).
> # libpq_pgport_shlib is the same idea, but for use in client shared libraries.
>
> I switched these back to arrays but added an additional check to only
> add new items to the array if we don't already have an element with
> the same value.
>
> I've attached the diffs in the *.vcxproj files between patched and unpatched.

The patch does not apply on Head anymore, could you rebase and post a
patch. I'm changing the status to "Waiting for Author".

Regards,
Vignesh