Thread: how to link an external lib on Windows

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</style>Hi,<br />    I build PG on VS2005, which files should I change to use a external lib in my own contrib, for
example,Berkeley DB 4.8.26?<br /> <br />    Until now, I have tried the following 2 ways, but both failed.<br /><br
/>   1. Add the target include and lib<br />       1). src/tools/msvc/config.pl<br />            add a new line:
db48=>'C:\ProgramFiles\Oracle\Berkeley DB 4.8.26' <br />       2). src/Makefile.global.in<br />            Add a new
lineafter line 435 "LIBS := -lpgport $(LIBS)" (maybe not exactly same with different versions): LIBS := -ldb48
$(LIBS)<br/>       3). contrib/mycontrib/Makefile<br />            SHLIB_LINK += $(filter -ldb48, ($LIBS))<br />       
ThenI build DEBUG in Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt, it reports db.h not found.<br /><br />    2. The first error
reportshows that the include file is not accessed<br />       I changed the congiture option "--with-libxml" to yes,
andadd the files of include and lib under Berkeley DB 4.8.26 to libxml folder. <br />       When I build, it reports:
fatalerror LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals<br />       Then I check the single project on VS2005, there is no
libdb48.libin the Linker input, after I added BDB_DIR\lib\libdb48.lib to it. It build successfully.<br /><br />    But
Iwant to build the whole PG source with mycontrib, Had someone ever encounter a problem like this?  <img alt=""
height="19"src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_regular.gif" width="19" />Thanks~<br /><br
/><br/><br />Best Regards<br />Chaoyong Wang<br /><br /><hr />Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail
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