postgresql: libpq.a not an import library

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jun 7 05:27:00 GMT 2013


On 2013-06-06 14:55, marco atzeri wrote:
> Il 6/6/2013 9:30 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) ha scritto:
>> libpq.a was always an import library for the libpq DLL, but in
>> libpq-devel-9.2.4-1, it is an ordinary static library, but there is no
>> libpq.dll.a implib either.  Could you please fix this?
>
> give me some time to review again the "unusal" postgresql
> build system.
> When I patched to remove the dlltool/dllwrap I probably forgot something

While you're at it, is the 9.x libpq DLL really ABI compatible with the 
8.x version?  I haven't analyzed them, but just from history, I wouldn't 
be surprised if it wasn't, in which case the DLL really needs to be 
versioned so it doesn't collide with the old, unversioned 8.x DLL.


Yaakov


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