link errors building extensions for Postgres on Windows using MinGW

I'm trying to port an extension that previously ran under Postgres on linux so that it runs under PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on Windows. I'm using MingGW for the compiling/linking.

I'm getting problems when I try to link though. Symbols that are defined in the Postgres server and referenced in my extension cause link errors that prevent a dll from being produced.

fe-giefToGrid.c:25: undefined reference to `pg_detoast_datum'

fe-udr.c:510: undefined reference to `Float8GetDatum'

libgridfrontendDEBUG.a(fe-udr.o)(.text+0xbe7):fe-udr.c:515: undefined reference to `get_typlenbyvalalign'

 I can get rid of these link errors by linking in the libpostgres.a file at the cost of a much larger shared library. In theory, I shouldn't need to though (at least I don't under linux), and doing so may result in two inconsistent copies of some Postgres internal data structures presumably. My link line looks like:

gcc -u_etext -shared -fpic  -Wl,--whole-archive -o destDir/Grid.dll -Lmylibdir -L/lib -L/c/Program\ Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/lib -lmylibs -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -lpostgres -lwsock32 -lm 2> link.errs

can anyone suggest a solution?

Thank you,

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