Re: pl/perl extension fails on Windows

Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Yeah ... however, if that's there, then there's something wrong with
>> Ashutosh's explanation, because that means we *are* building with
>> _USE_32BIT_TIME_T in 32-bit builds. It's just getting there in a
>> roundabout way. (Or, alternatively, this code is somehow not doing
>> anything at all.)

> I am extremely sorry if i have communicated the things wrongly, what i
> meant was we are always considering _USE_32BIT_TIME_T flag to build
> plperl module on Windows 32-bit platform but unfortunately that is not
> being considered/defined in perl code in case we use VC++ compiler
> version greater than 8.0. and that's the reason for the binary
> mismatch error on 32 bit platform.

Got it. So in short, it seems like the attached patch ought to fix it
for MSVC builds. (We'd also need to teach PGAC_CHECK_PERL_EMBED_CCFLAGS
to let _USE_32BIT_TIME_T through on Windows, but let's confirm the theory
first.)

regards, tom lane