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From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq
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Msg-id CAMsr+YFp63SYo2VinHuwMeLGjNc60fr1deTxmJT=tgrX3kHFBg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq  (Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq  (Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>)
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On 26 January 2016 at 23:04, Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
Hello hackers.
Why we do not use PGDLLEXPORT (__declspec (dllexport)) for the libpq (and other dlls)?
Now we are using black magic with gendef.pl for get def (aka export.txt) from .obj files.
I have set for some functions and it works.
Perhaps there is a circumstance that I do not know but my version seems to me simplify build under Windows.

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TL;DR:  PGDLLEXPORT is considered ugly Windows-droppings in the code and so a less visible, albeit more convoluted, solution is used.


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