Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 2014-02-01 21:04:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I don't know why it didn't fail for postgres_fdw. Hm, maybe it's because
> > Mkvcbuild.pm links postgres_fdw with libpq, but not test_shm_mq?
> 
> Hard to see how libpq as such could have anything to do with it.
> I wonder though if adding libpq causes some different link-time
> switch to be used.  If so, could we arrange to use that switch
> all the time, and thus get rid of the need for PGDLLIMPORT marks?

Well, not because of libpq itself, but because it causes a def file to
be used. I am not sure how they are autogenerated, but it might already
cause. I fortunately have forgotten most of that uglyness.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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