Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT
Date: 2014-10-20 15:24:26
Message-ID: 20141020152426.GA259630@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:06:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > I don't expect to understand the mechanism
> > behind it, but I recommend we switch back to linking libpq with shell32.dll.
> > The MSVC build already does that in all supported branches, and it feels right
> > for the MinGW build to follow suit in 9.4+. Windows versions that lack the
> > symbol in shell32.dll are now ancient history.
>
> This is basically reverting 889f038, right?

Mostly so. Keeping the SHGetSpecialFolderPath() -> SHGetFolderPath() part,
but reverting the shell32.dll -> shfolder.dll part.

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