Re: Additional items for Win32 TODO list? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Jason Tishler
Subject Re: Additional items for Win32 TODO list?
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Msg-id 20040130164704.GA644@tishler.net
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In response to Re: Additional items for Win32 TODO list?  (Horák Daniel <horak@sitmp.cz>)
List pgsql-hackers-win32
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:57:35AM +0100, Horák Daniel wrote:
> I copied and modified the process (which calls dlltool many times)
> very long ago (1998) from some Cygwin docs about DLL creation.  I
> think it should be possible to use the same process in Mingw build
> process for native PostgreSQL.

Agreed, but does Mingw's ld support exporting symbols directly from an
executable?  Cygwin's ld does:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00002.html

If so, then maybe it's time to remove the dlltool stuff and make Cygwin
and Mingw more like the other Unixes (e.g., gcc -shared).

Jason

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