Re: BUG #5707: Cross compilation for windows is broken

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Richard Evans <richard(dot)evans(at)datanomic(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5707: Cross compilation for windows is broken
Date: 2011-02-26 07:14:37
Message-ID: 201102260714.p1Q7Eca05921@momjian.us
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Has this been addressed?

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 29 13:23:39 -0300 2010:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> > <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > > Excerpts from Richard Evans's message of mar oct 12 12:48:45 -0300 2010:
> > >
> > >> When cross compiling for Windows using a separate build area, libpq.dll does
> > >> not build because the .def file cannot be found.
> > >>
> > >> This appears to be caused by these lines in Makefile.shlib:
> > >
> > > Hmm, apparently this was made to work here:
> > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=26af72b4
> > >
> > > and subsequently broken later:
> > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=234c7ce9
> > >
> > > I think the real fix is to make the DEF files be generated in the
> > > builddir, to complete the intention of the latter patch.
> >
> > Is anyone working on that?
>
> Not me. I tried, but mingw32-gcc doesn't work out of the box for me,
> because configure is not testing for the right accept() arguments.
> That's what I can do with the time I can dedicate to a problem like this
> right now (i.e. not much).
>
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