Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin

On 1/15/15 2:37 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Attached are two patches, one for MinGW/cygwin, a slightly modified
>> version from Peter and the second implementing the same thing but for
>> the MSVC scripts. The method for MSVC is similar to what is done in
>> Peter's patch: roughly it checks if SO_MAJOR_VERSION is present in the
>> Makefile of a given library, the path of Makefile is found by looking
>> at the location of the .rc in the vcproj file (could be better but I
>> could not come up with a better method). TBH, it would be good to be
>> completely consistent in the way we build things on Windows, and we
>> may as well consider a backpatch to fix this long-standing bug. The
>> MSVC patch removes of course the hack copying libpq.dll from lib/ to
>> bin/.
>>
>> I mentioned the fix for MSVC scripts as well here:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQiUePzPhd3Mmk+Q7_cQQRKK_V1FVxKNyMRi660Z4dPzg@mail.gmail.com
> Peter, this patch is waiting for input for a couple of weeks. IMO, it
> would be good to finally get a fix for this bug, and we have patches
> for both MSVC (the patch I sent) and mingw (your stuff).

I have committed my mingw portion, but I cannot take on the MSVC part.