| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin |
| Date: | 2013-07-25 21:11:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20130725211106.GI14652@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 07/25/2013 05:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Usually on Windows it's necessary to have libpq.dll/cygpq.dll either
> >>in the PATH or in the same directory as client .exe files.
> >
> >Seems a reasonable workaround for a silly platform bug. Do you need to
> >patch the MSVC stuff as well?
>
> MSVC already does it - see src/tools/msvc/Install.pm:
>
> lcopy($target . '/lib/libpq.dll', $target . '/bin/libpq.dll');
Oh, so your patch is just a bug fix and we should backpatch it all the
way, no?
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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