Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin

On 02/01/2014 08:01 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/31/14, 12:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Hmm, looks like it got dropped. I think my original patch is probably
>> about the the right thing to do, and given that it's already done by
>> the MSVC build it's a bug and should be backported, as Alvaro said in
>> the original discussion.
>>
>> I'll get on that shortly - since the patch was untested I'll need to do
>> a test first.
> I think this change is reasonable to make, but it should be in
> Makefile.shlib, not in libpq/Makefile. Makefile.shlib already knows
> about the difference between a link-time and a run-time dynamic library
> (not to speak of Windows vs. others), so the right change there will
> make it work for libpq, ecpg, and whatever else someone might come up
> with automatically.
>
>

In the end I went with the way I had suggested, because that's what the
MSVC system does - it doesn't copy any other DLLs to the bin directory.
So doing that seemed sane for backpatching, to bring the two build
systems into sync.

If you want to propose a better arrangement for the future, to include,
say, ecpg DLLs, and including changes to the MSVC system, we can discuss
that separately.

cheers

andrew