On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 06:55 -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > OK, I can try this, however, this patch still doesn't work on windows. I > get link errors on windows because the the libs aren't linked in. > > $ ./pg_config --libs > -lpgport -lm -lSecur32 -lws2_32 -lshfolder > > $ ./pg_config --libdir > C:/msys/1.0/.../POSTGR~1/POSTGR~1.1/lib > > So, if the --libs is not provided on windows, then it doesn't link. > Sorry to be such a pain, I don't know what else we could do here. > > This is from the pgsql-bugs list: > > Well, if you are linking statically, you might as well refer to > pg_config --libs, or any other infinite list of libraries you can dream of. > The main reason why this is discouraged for dynamic linking is that this > creates unnecessary package dependencies. But for static linking, it sounds > OK to me. I guess we have never really bothered to carefully specify the > static case.
OK, not a problem. We'll whack libs in there too. -- Bojan
