On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> I'm not sure I believe this. I don't see any PGDLLEXPORT symbols in any > >> of the standard contrib modules; how is it that they work? > > > They are built through our perl toolkit, which enables exporting of *all* > > symbols, regardless of flags in the code. > > That seems like a perfectly reasonable solution, given the way we use > loadable modules. Excess symbols in the module shouldn't really do > any harm. Can't we just document the flags to use for this, if you're > building in some other way? > It's not a build flag, and that's the main problem. It's the src/tools/msvc/ gendef.pl script that builds the export list. And what Craig is after here is being able to build extensions using standard tools without needing our full build infrastructure. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
