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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin
Date: 2014-02-25 21:11:27
Message-ID: 530D06FF.3030004@gmx.net
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On 2/1/14, 3:22 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 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.

See attached patch.

There is also the commit fest item
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1330 that
requests the MSVC builds to install the epcg libraries in the bin directory.

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windows-lib-install.patch text/x-patch 2.4 KB

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