Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Implement a few changes to how shared libraries and dynamically

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > petere(at)postgresql(dot)org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> >
> >> Implement a few changes to how shared libraries and dynamically
> >> loadable modules are built.
> >>
> >
> > Seems this patch has broken all the Windows buildfarm animals ... is
> > anybody on that?
> >
>
> Not all, only those that use the Makefile build system, i.e. MSVC is
> not failing, but MinGW and Cygwin are.
>
> Specifically, we are failing thus during initdb:
>
> creating conversions ... FATAL: could not access file
> "$libdir/ascii_and_mic": No such file or directory
>
>
> I can't immediately see the cause, although presumably it's the
> changes in Makefile.shlib that have done it.
>
> Maybe we need to set up a Windows machine or two somewhere so that
> committers can test out stuff like this ...

I offered this before, and nobody was interested at the time. I don't
have the resources to do it right now if it would be interesting now,
but I think we can put one up in a VM on one of the community managed
servers actually - as long as you don't need performance, that's
certainly doable.

(I don't have a working mingw env at all right now, still
working on setting up a proper VM with windows + msvc since
changing job, so I can't look at this specific issue right now
myself)

//Magnus