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

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 2/1/14, 3:22 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> In the end I went with the way I had suggested, because that's what the
>> MSVC system does - it doesn't copy any other DLLs to the bin directory.
>> So doing that seemed sane for backpatching, to bring the two build
>> systems into sync.
>>
>> If you want to propose a better arrangement for the future, to include,
>> say, ecpg DLLs, and including changes to the MSVC system, we can discuss
>> that separately.
>
> See attached patch.
>
> There is also the commit fest item
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1330 that
> requests the MSVC builds to install the epcg libraries in the bin directory.

Looking finally at this patch. In short, it moves to bin/
libpgtypes.dll, libecpg.dll and libecpg_compat.dll for cygwin and
MinGW build using some additional processing in Makefile.shlib,
removing at the same time the win32 stuff in libpq/Makefile.

IMO, it would be more readable to replace this part with a separate if
block for readability. So changing that:
-         '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(shlib)' \
+         '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(shlib)' $(if $(findstring
$(PORTNAME),win32 cygwin),'$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(shlib)') \
For that:
ifneq(blah)   blah2
endif

The MSVC portion of this fix got completely lost in the void:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1330

Peter, could it be possible to merge this patch with its MSVC portion
for simplicity? I think that it would more readable to do all the
changes at the same time once and for all. Also, that's still a bug,
so are we still considering a backpatch? I wouldn't mind putting some
time into a patch to get that fixed..
Regards,
-- 
Michael