>> I'm not sure I believe this. I don't see any PGDLLEXPORT symbols in any >> of the standard contrib modules; how is it that they work?
> They are built through our perl toolkit, which enables exporting of *all* > symbols, regardless of flags in the code.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable solution, given the way we use loadable modules. Excess symbols in the module shouldn't really do any harm. Can't we just document the flags to use for this, if you're building in some other way?
It's not a build flag, and that's the main problem. It's the src/tools/msvc/gendef.pl script that builds the export list. And what Craig is after here is being able to build extensions using standard tools without needing our full build infrastructure.
