Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq
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Msg-id 20160127131104.GC17919@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2016-01-27 21:05:06 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 27 January 2016 at 20:54, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:

> > > If so many problems with MSVC can discard his support of Postgres?

> I strongly disagree. MSVC is a high quality compiler and the primary tool
> for the platform.

I think it's pretty obvious that we're not going to do that, so let's
drop that specific topic.


> Yes, it's behind on standards support and that's annoying

They're fixing that largely btw.


> -  OTOH MinGW relies on reverse-engineered headers, an old gcc fork, and
> has had some pretty nasty bugs.

I think that's also mostly fixed with mingw64 et al.

Andres



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