Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2014-02-03T06:13:05Z

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Commits

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MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.
- 53566fc0940c 9.5.0 cited
Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.
- 60ff2fdd9970 9.4.0 cited
Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.
- 846e91e0223c 9.4.0 cited
Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.
- 7d7eee8bb702 9.4.0 cited
Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.
- 708c529c7fde 9.4.0 cited
Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the
- 889f03812916 8.1.0 cited

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I'm not a fan of MinGW (gcc) on Windows, it's a right pain. It's also
> the only open source compiler currently supported for PostgreSQL on
> Windows - practically the only one available. I don't know about you,
> but I'm not too keen on assuming Microsoft will continue to offer free
> toolchains that're usable for our purposes. They're crippling their free
> build tools more and more with each release, which isn't a good trend.

I was under the impression that Microsoft had finally come around to
implementing a few C99 features in Visual Studio 2013 precisely
because they want there to be an open source ecosystem on Windows.


-- 
Peter Geoghegan