Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT
Date
Msg-id 20140202012535.GK5930@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2014-02-02 02:15:39 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-02-01 20:03:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think we should give serious consideration to desupporting this
> > combination so that we can get rid of the plague of PGDLLIMPORT
> > marks.  Obviously this would depend on confirming that there are
> > no more-interesting Windows build methods that require it --- but
> > if there are any, I'd sure demand that there be an active buildfarm
> > instance to keep us from breaking the case again in future.
> 
> Weren't there more recent cases of needing to add PGDLLIMPORTs? I
> certainly remember pushing code to Craig's jenkins instance which made
> me do so for recent msvc
> builds... E.g. 7d7eee8bb702d7796a0d7c5886c1f4685f2e2806 and
> 708c529c7fdeba9387825d746752fc6f439d781e just a few days ago seems to be
> some of those cases.

And indeed, currawong  failed with a link time error:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=currawong&dt=2014-01-17%2013%3A30%3A21

I don't know why it didn't fail for postgres_fdw. Hm, maybe it's because
Mkvcbuild.pm links postgres_fdw with libpq, but not test_shm_mq?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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