Re: ODBC Unix distro building woes - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@tpf.co.jp]
> Sent: 12 November 2002 03:44
> To: Dave Page; Peter Eisentraut
> Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC Unix distro building woes
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Btw., I noticed that the latest version of the ODBC
> driver gets me a
> > > linker error "undefined symbol WinMain@16" on Cygwin.
> This used to
> > > work a while ago.
> >
> > Hmm. I'll look into this tomorrow (unless you have any ideas
> > Hiroshi?).
>
> It works here on cygwin.
> Peter seems to be making a executable not a shared library.

I just tried it here with the 7.2.4 distro, and I get the same error as
Peter:

...
...
(cd . && ln -s gpps.lo gpps.o)
generating symbol list for `psqlodbc.la'
 dlltool --export-all --exclude-symbols
DllMain@12,_cygwin_dll_entry@12,_cygwin_
noncygwin_dll_entry@12,DllMainCRTStartup@12,DllEntryPoint@12
--output-def .libs/
psqlodbc.dll-def  info.lo bind.lo columninfo.lo connection.lo convert.lo
drvconn
.lo environ.lo execute.lo lobj.lo win_md5.lo misc.lo options.lo
pgtypes.lo psqlo
dbc.lo qresult.lo results.lo socket.lo parse.lo statement.lo tuple.lo
tuplelist.
lo dlg_specific.lo odbcapi.lo multibyte.lo gpps.lo
 sed -e "1,/EXPORTS/d" -e "s/ @ [0-9]*//" -e "s/ *;.*$//" <
.libs/psqlodbc.dll-d
ef > .libs/psqlodbc.exp
if test "x`sed 1q .libs/psqlodbc.exp`" = xEXPORTS; then cp
.libs/psqlodbc.exp .l
ibs/psqlodbc.dll-def; else echo EXPORTS > .libs/psqlodbc.dll-def;
_lt_hint=1; ca
t .libs/psqlodbc.exp | while read symbol; do set dummy $symbol; case $#
in 2) ec
ho " $2 @ $_lt_hint ; " >> .libs/psqlodbc.dll-def;; 4) echo " $2 $3 $4 ;
" >> .l
ibs/psqlodbc.dll-def; _lt_hint=`expr $_lt_hint - 1`;; *) echo " $2 @
$_lt_hint $
3 ; " >> .libs/psqlodbc.dll-def;; esac; _lt_hint=`expr 1 + $_lt_hint`;
done; fi
 gcc -Wl,--base-file,.libs/psqlodbc.dll-base
-Wl,-e,__cygwin_dll_entry@12 -o .li
bs/psqlodbc.dll  info.lo bind.lo columninfo.lo connection.lo convert.lo
drvconn.
lo environ.lo execute.lo lobj.lo win_md5.lo misc.lo options.lo
pgtypes.lo psqlod
bc.lo qresult.lo results.lo socket.lo parse.lo statement.lo tuple.lo
tuplelist.l
o dlg_specific.lo odbcapi.lo multibyte.lo gpps.lo
/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x7c): undefined reference to
`WinMain@16
'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [psqlodbc.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/psqlodbc-7.2.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
PC9 $

I'm not sure what's causing it to be honest, but as Hiroshi says, it
does look like it's trying to build an exe (hence the WinMain). I've
CC'd this to the Cygwin list - maybe Jason has an idea.

Regards, Dave.