Re: doc: pgevent.dll location

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 1:46 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 16:11, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On 06.11.24 13:57, Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu) wrote:
>> > The dll install paths are changed as follows on Windows.
>> >
>> > (1) pgevent.dll
>> > PG16: lib/
>> > PG17: bin/
>> >
>> > (2) dll for user (like libpq.dll, libecpg.dll)
>> > PG16: Both in lib/ and bin/
>> > PG17: bin/
>> >
>> > (3) contrib dll (like amcheck.dll)
>> > PG16: lib/
>> > PG17: lib/
>> >
>> >
>> > I understand that Dave says (1) and (2) should exist on bin/ directory
>> > and the paths in PG17 are correct.
>> >
>> > So, I think it is correct to update documentation.
>>
>> I don't have Windows handy to test it out, but looking at the respective
>> build system source files, in master, pgevent is built and installed
>> like a normal shared library in both meson.build and Makefile, so it
>> should end up somewhere in lib.
>>
>> In src/tools/msvc in REL_16_STABLE, I see some code that appears to
>> suggest that it installs in bin.
>>
>> Again, this is just reading the code, but it seems to be backwards from
>> what is claimed earlier.
>
>
> I downloaded the builds of v16 and v17 from
> https://github.com/dpage/winpgbuild/actions/runs/11639786998, a project worked on by Andres, Dave Cramer, and myself.
>
> I've just double-checked I didn't get mixed up, and can confirm that in v17, pgevent.dll is installed into bin/ and in v16.4, it's in lib/
>

I can re-confirm that on my Windows setup, pgevent.dll is present in
bin/ for PG17 and HEAD and in lib/ for PG16.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.