Re: [patch] build issues on Win32

=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des(at)des(dot)no> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> "Dag-Erling Smrgrav" <des(at)des(dot)no> writes:
>>> 1. PostgreSQL's private versions of inet_aton etc. can conflict with
>>> similar functions in other libraries (in my case, PostgreSQL's
>>> inet_aton conflicts with libavformat's).

>> So what? We don't link with those libraries.

> Your users might need to link with both.

We don't support linking the backend into other applications. If you're
complaining about libpq, the right thing for that is to use a platform
that can suppress non-exported symbols from a shared library. Maybe
what we need to do is teach the mingw build path how to respect the
exports list for libpq?

regards, tom lane