Re: Borland c++ compile problems...

Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Sorry to be a pest, and all that. However, it looks like make needs to
> >>be run in src\port, to create pg_config_paths.h, and compile stuff to
> >>resolve externals _set_noblock, _pg_strcasecmp, _pg_tolower, and _popen
> >>(? bit worried about that one!)
> >>
> >>I had a go at rewriting an existing bcc32.mak, but just seemed to
> >>generate more errors!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Uh, I don't see how those would fail. What errors are you seeing?
> >
> >
> >
> Well, in the port subdirectory, one of the things that is generated by
> the makefile is pg_config_paths.h. Without this, libpq will not compile.
> As I stated above, cobbling this together manually then gets me to the
> place where the aforementioned external references are not resolved. All
> are in source files in the port directory.
>
> The errors I'm seeing are all caused by includes not being found, etc. I
> don't know what to do when they are ones like strings.h, which I do not
> have either in the snapshot source tree, or in the Borland bcc 5.5 tree.
>
> I also don't know how you want the above files building... into a
> library, static or dynamic/straight object code, etc. There is also no
> listing in the current bcc32.mak files to include them into the libpq
> dll generation.

OK, if you look at the last few commits to interfaces/libpq/win32.mak,
you will see changes for pg_config_paths.h and for thread safety. Can
you look at those changes, merge them into bcc.mak. There might be
other changes in there you want to add to bcc.mak too.

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