Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Peter, could it be possible to merge this patch with its MSVC portion
> for simplicity? I think that it would more readable to do all the
> changes at the same time once and for all. Also, that's still a bug,
> so are we still considering a backpatch? I wouldn't mind putting some
> time into a patch to get that fixed..

Attached are two patches, one for MinGW/cygwin, a slightly modified
version from Peter and the second implementing the same thing but for
the MSVC scripts. The method for MSVC is similar to what is done in
Peter's patch: roughly it checks if SO_MAJOR_VERSION is present in the
Makefile of a given library, the path of Makefile is found by looking
at the location of the .rc in the vcproj file (could be better but I
could not come up with a better method). TBH, it would be good to be
completely consistent in the way we build things on Windows, and we
may as well consider a backpatch to fix this long-standing bug. The
MSVC patch removes of course the hack copying libpq.dll from lib/ to
bin/.

I mentioned the fix for MSVC scripts as well here:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQiUePzPhd3Mmk+Q7_cQQRKK_V1FVxKNyMRi660Z4dPzg@mail.gmail.com
Regards,
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Michael