Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 2014-02-12 19:13:07 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Hm.  So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
> >we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
> >the other Windows builds?

> If I am not wrong "--enable-auto-import" is already the
> default on cygwin build chain ( binutils >= 2.19.51 ) so it should make no
> difference on latest cygwin. Not sure for you 1.7.7 build enviroment.

We're *disabling* not *enabling* it.

> About PGDLLIMPORT , my build log is full of "warning: ‘optarg’ redeclared
> without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored "

That should be fixed then. I guess cygwin's getopt.h declares it that way?

> I suspect that removing will also make no difference.

The committed patch explicitly disables the functionality.

> PS: we aim unix-like builds not windows one....

Well, there are a significant number of caveats around the auto import
functionality, so there seems little benefit in using it if all the
declspec's have to be there anyway.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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