build WIN32 ODBC using VC++, not Cygwin/gcc

To build the PostgreSQL ODBC driver from CVS (or a recent
snapshot/beta, I presume): the following steps worked for me:

+ Make sure that the psqlodbc.def file in interfaces/odbc is exactly
as distributed or obtained from CVS, not the result of some prior build.

+ Run 'configure' _without_ '--with-odbc' to build PostgreSQL.

+ Follow the steps in interfaces/odbc/readme.txt to build the ODBC DLL
using MS Visual C++.

Building with '--with-odbc' will appear to work, but the resulting DLL
(created by Cygwin gcc/tools) completely fails to work for me once
installed. (It would have been nice if the documentation gave a hint
about this. Or did I miss it? The presense of the readme.txt file
does not suffice to make it clear that VC++ is the _only_ correct way
to build the module for WIN32.)

I also got confused when first building the DLL from VC++, because my
prior efforts using '--with-odbc' left behind a psqlodbc.def file that
is incorrect. My thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for helping me get past this.

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