Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 02/13/2014 05:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On February 12, 2014 10:23:21 PM CET, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> There are cases where one module needs symbols from another directly.
>>> Would that be affected by this?
>
>> I don't think we have real infrastructure for that yet. Neither from the POV of loading several .so's, nor from a symbol visibility. Afaics we'd need a working definition of PGDLLIMPORT which inverts the declspecs. I think Tom just removed the remnants of that.
>
> No, I've not touched the PGDLLIMPORT macros. I was hoping to, but it
> looks like we're not getting there :-(

In theory we could now remove the __declspec(dllexport) case for
BUILDING_DLL, as it should now be redundant with the fixed .DEF generator.

Should.

Unfortunately it looks like there's not going to be any getting around
having something that can turn into __declspec(dllimport) in the headers
for compiling things that link to postgres.exe, though.

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