Re: Updated Win32 libs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
> Sent: 01 November 2004 13:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Updated Win32 libs
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > I've uploaded a new set of win32 libs to
> developer.pgadmin.org. These
> > ones are built from postgresql 8.0 beta4.
>
> With the previous versions (20041016), my pg_dump will
> complain about missing pg_strcasecmp. Now (20041025), it
> won't work because libintl-2.dll isn't present.

Yes, that's because Magnus recently added NLS support. The pg_strcasecmp
issue almost certainly would have arisen with staic libs as well because
it was a build issue affecting libpq in general.

> Actually, I'm not too happy about this DLL hell stuff. Static
> linking probably wouln't use more space, because the ssl libs
> carry much unused methods in them. At least, the zip should
> include all pgsql tools too.

The problem will be moot once 8.0 stabilises anyway - it only arises now
because some missing features have been added. The reason was shifted to
DLLs was because the win32 installer has a variety of packages all using
libpq code, and combined they do make a signicant size difference.

Regards, Dave.