Re: Windows: openssl & gssapi dislike each other

On 2025-01-22 We 4:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 09:17, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
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> > On 10 Jul 2024, at 19:06, Imran Zaheer <imran(dot)zhir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> (Reviving an old thread to give them a chance to finish before v18)
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> > For now maybe we can do the future proofing for gssapi & openssl
> includes
> > and do testing if openssl clashes with some other lib too.
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> Where did this end up, is compilation on Windows with OpenSSL and
> GSSAPI still
> an issue?  AFAICT the fixes from this thread are yet to be applied
> and it would
> be nice to have that done before v18 if still needed.
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> I kid you not, 20 seconds ago I hit send on a message on a pgAdmin
> thread where I was complaining this bug was outstanding to someone
> asking about GSSAPI support on Windows. That's quite the coincidence.
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>  Anyway, no fix was committed as far as I know. I would suggest it
> should be back-patched as well.
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>

I'm quite partial to the approach suggested upthread by Andres (a
separate pg_gssapi.h file). If there's agreement on that I'm prepared to
go and make it happen, unless Daniel beats me to it. Backpatching also
seems reasonable.

cheers

andrew

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