Re: [HACKERS] dynamic loading on NT works!

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org'" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-03-09T13:39:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Horak Daniel wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have played with dynamic loading of modules to the backend and it works.
> It needs only to add "DLLIMPORT" to all data structures, that should be
> exported.
> 
> The main thing is done in the src/include/c.h - it defines DLLIMPORT to
> nothing on platforms other then Cygwin and __declspec(...) on Cygwin, and in
> src/makefiles/Makefile.win - it defines the symbol BUILDING_DLL only when
> the make process is in the src/backend subtree.
> 
> I have tested it with trigger regression test - it works, and with some
> plpgsql stuff - it doesn't work and it probably needs some other data to be
> exported from the backend.
> 
> I think the changes are minimal so they can by applied to the development
> source tree for 6.5.
> 
> 			Dan
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Daniel Horak
> network and system administrator
> e-mail: horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz
> privat e-mail: dan.horak@email.cz
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> 

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org