Re: Windows: openssl & gssapi dislike each other

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 20:07, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

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> 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
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>> 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
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That solution seems quite elegant to me.

Thanks.

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