Re: [Patch] Mingw: Fix import library extension, build actual static libraries

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:23:50PM +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
> Related, no actual static libraries are produced alongside the respective
> dlls. The attached patch 0002-Build-static-libraries.patch addresses this,
> in a similar fashion as is already done for the AIX case in Makefile.shlib.

We don't build static libraries on AIX, though Makefile.shlib uses the
$(stlib) variable to get a name for the *.a shared library it makes. Here's
an example of one AIX Makefile.shlib build sequence, from
https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=hornet&dt=2019-04-15%2022%3A35%3A52&stg=make

rm -f libpq.a
ar crs libpq.a fe-auth.o fe-auth-scram.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o fe-lobj.o fe-protocol2.o fe-protocol3.o pqexpbuffer.o fe-secure.o libpq-events.o encnames.o wchar.o fe-secure-openssl.o fe-secure-common.o
touch libpq.a
../../../src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh libpq.a libpq.so.5 >libpq.exp
xlc_r -qmaxmem=33554432 -D_LARGE_FILES=1 -qnoansialias -g -O2 -qmaxmem=16384 -qsrcmsg -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -o libpq.so.5 libpq.a -Wl,-bE:libpq.exp -L../../../src/port -L../../../src/common -lpgcommon_shlib -lpgport_shlib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/libxml2-64/lib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/icu58.2-64/lib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/uuid-64/lib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/openldap-64/lib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/icu58.2-64/lib -L/home/nm/sw/nopath/libxml2-64/lib -Wl,-blibpath:'/home/nm/farm/xlc64/HEAD/inst/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/libxml2-64/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/icu58.2-64/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/uuid-64/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/openldap-64/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/icu58.2-64/lib:/home/nm/sw/nopath/libxml2-64/lib:/usr/lib:/lib' -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -lintl -lssl -lcrypto -lm -lldap_r -llber -lpthreads
rm -f libpq.a
ar crs libpq.a libpq.so.5