Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Yury Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Proposal:Use PGDLLEXPORT for libpq
Date: 2016-01-27 13:11:05
Message-ID: 20160127131104.GC17919@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2016-01-27 21:05:06 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 27 January 2016 at 20:54, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:

> > > If so many problems with MSVC can discard his support of Postgres?

> I strongly disagree. MSVC is a high quality compiler and the primary tool
> for the platform.

I think it's pretty obvious that we're not going to do that, so let's
drop that specific topic.

> Yes, it's behind on standards support and that's annoying

They're fixing that largely btw.

> - OTOH MinGW relies on reverse-engineered headers, an old gcc fork, and
> has had some pretty nasty bugs.

I think that's also mostly fixed with mingw64 et al.

Andres

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