On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:11:57 -0000, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 01:25 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 May 2011 12:40:28 -0000, Andrew Dunstan
>> <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Our Makefiles use dlltool and dllwrap to create DLLs. If you used our
>>> recommended build method pgxs would do lots of the work for you.
>>>
>>
>> "dllwrap is a tool to build DLLs. It seems to be deprecated in favour of
>> gcc -shared option, but some projects still use it. SQLite, for
>> example."
>>
>> Armed with this information, it may be prudent review the DLL build
>> process in PGXS.
>
> OK, but if we want to get rid of using dllwrap we'd need a complete
> patch for it. Just changing the definition of the macro without changing
> the rest isn't going to cut it, I think. But it might well be worth
> doing.
You're right. And now that I know a little bit more about how to build
DLLs
and what's involved I can take a look at this, sometime in the not-too-
distant future.
Until next time, have fun!
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