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| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Reini Urban" <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>, "pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: cypg.dll, libpq_a, initdb max_connections 60 |
| Date: | 2004-10-09 19:06:13 |
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>1. cyg-pgdll.patch
>For the cygwin port I found out that we'd need a better name for libpq
>libraries only, and that the name pq.dll is not a good one. It would
>clash with the mingw version, which might get copied into the path.
>We have out own standards, esp. when dealing with import libs, which
>would require the "cyg" prefix for pq.dll.
The mingw library is "libpq.dll", not "pq.dll". If cygwin uses just
"pq.dll" there will be no clash.
Same for the native win32 version, which has been around for years.
//Magnus
| From: | Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: cypg.dll, libpq_a, initdb max_connections 60 |
| Date: | 2004-10-10 12:42:43 |
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Magnus Hagander schrieb:
>>1. cyg-pgdll.patch
>>For the cygwin port I found out that we'd need a better name for libpq
>>libraries only, and that the name pq.dll is not a good one. It would
>>clash with the mingw version, which might get copied into the path.
>>We have out own standards, esp. when dealing with import libs, which
>>would require the "cyg" prefix for pq.dll.
>
>
> The mingw library is "libpq.dll", not "pq.dll". If cygwin uses just
> "pq.dll" there will be no clash.
>
> Same for the native win32 version, which has been around for years.
Thanks. Good to know.
Nevertheless I would prefer the cyg prefix,
and also some DLL versioning.
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/