| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sandro Mani <manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [Patch] Mingw: Fix import library extension, build actual static libraries |
| Date: | 2019-09-04 06:47:16 |
| Message-ID: | 96c89900-98c4-dc39-e60c-4d600bcfeceb@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2019-03-07 15:23, Sandro Mani wrote:
> Currently building postgresql for Win32 with a mingw toolchain produces
> import libraries with *.a extension, whereas the extension should be
> *.dll.a.
I have read the MinGW documentation starting from
<http://www.mingw.org/wiki/DLL> and have found no information supporting
this claim. All their examples match our existing naming. What is your
source for this information -- other than ...
> There are various downstream workarounds for this, see i.e. [1]
> and [2]. The attached patch 0001-Fix-import-library-extension.patch
> addresses this.
I'm confused what Fedora and Arch Linux have to do with this. Are they
distributing Windows binaries of third-party software?
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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