Re: Windows, gettext/libintl, pg_sprintf and friends

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> First the good news. After several false tries I managed to get gettext
> and friends installed on MinGW so that I could get past configure when I
> set "--enable-nls". I did this by installing (in this order) the
> following packages from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617 in c:\MinGW :
> 
> libintl-0.11.5-2-bin.zip
> libiconv-1.8-1-lib.zip
> libiconv-1.8-1-bin.zip
> gettext-0.14.1-bin.zip
> gettext-0.14.1-lib.zip
> gettext-0.14.1-dep.zip
> 
> That's significan't progress - I have had nls turned off up to now.
> 
> Now the bad news: I get huge numbers of warnings about redefinitions
> etc, that look like this:
> 
> ../../../../src/include/port.h:135:1: warning: "printf" redefined
> In file included from ../../../../src/include/c.h:97,
>                  from ../../../../src/include/postgres_fe.h:21,
>                  from interval.c:1:
> c:/mingw/include/libintl.h:303:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

Ah, Nicolai Tufar complained about the same problem earlier this week. 
My only guess is that the #define for snprintf is also affecting the
include files, but I am unsure.

My MinGW laptop is out for service but I should have it back tomorrow.

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