Re: [patch] build issues on Win32

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>  Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Your users might need to link with both.  I'm working on an
> > application that generates animations (specifically, animated
> > weather forecasts) based on data retrieved from a PostgreSQL
> > database.
> This shows up only with static links of libpq, correct?

Yes.

> But the fix seems wrong. If you are using a static libpq, the library
> should be added whenever you link that library into your client
> application. Not for every single EXE and DLL that postgres produces.

Without this patch, pg_ctl fails to build...  and I don't see the logic
of including ws2_32 in LIBS but not secur32.  remember that LIBS
directly affects what pg_config reports, so if you don't add secur32 to
LIBS, consumers (applications) don't know that they need it.

DES
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