Re: meson: Add _static and _shared suffixes to the library names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
> The solution is changing the libraries' names [3]. Changing
> conflicting libraries' names is actually enough but I wanted to add
> _static and _shared suffixes to all of the libraries' names as I think
> this is more future proof.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.

Just as a kneejerk reaction, I think it'd be really strange if the
Meson version of libpq-oauth.a was named libpq-oauth_static.a on disk,
and clients had to figure out which build system was used in order to
link. (Especially since the original name doesn't actually conflict
with libpq-oauth-19.so.)

> -libpq_so = shared_library('libpq',
> +libpq_so = shared_library('libpq_shared',

This, in particular, can't happen; it's akin to an SONAME bump.

Is there a way to work around this problem in a way that affects Windows only?

--Jacob