| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)pgexperts(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin |
| Date: | 2014-01-31 17:25:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20140131172538.GI19957@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:53:45PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jeff Janes asked me about this, and Bruce just tripped up on it.
> Usually on Windows it's necessary to have libpq.dll/cygpq.dll either
> in the PATH or in the same directory as client .exe files. The
> buildfarm client has for many years simply copied this dll from the
> installation lib to the installation bin directory after running
> "make install". But I can't really see why we don't do that as part
> of "make install" anyway. I haven't tested but I think something
> like this patch would achieve this goal - it would fix something
> that's tripped a lot of people up over the years.
>
> Comments? If we do this, should it be backported?
Andrew, where are we on this?
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