Re: Error building PL/Perl (Postgres) under Cygwin

Edward,

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Edward Q. Bridges wrote:
> My questions:
> *  Is this a problem with cygwin's ld2 or dllwrap?  or is it a problem where the perl distro
>    i am using didn't have an "export definition file" with it?  or ???

It is problem with the stock Cygwin 1.1.4 distro.

> *  What can I do to fix it :)

See below...

> dllwrap --dllname plperl.dll --driver-name gcc --dlltool dlltool --export-all-symbols --as as --outp
> ut-def libplperl.def --output-lib libplperl.a \
>  -L/usr/local/lib plperl.o eloglvl.o SPI.o /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/cygwin/auto/Opcode/Opcode.dll
> -L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/cygwin/CORE -lperl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_0.
> a
> dllwrap: no export definition file provided
> dllwrap: creating one, but that may not be what you want
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol __cygwin_dll_entry@12; defaulting to 62881000

The above can be solved by following the instructions in:

    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00256.html

Jason

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