On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > You shouldn't ever need static libraries on Windows, though. Because it > searches the CWD first on its linker search path, you can just drop > libpq.dll in the same directory as your binary/library and link to the stub > libpq.lib .
This is not possible in our case. The R programming language binaries are installed in the "program files" directory which is only writable by the sys admin. There are over 10.000 contributed packages (including one with postgres drivers) which are installed by the user in the home dir and the package DLL's need to get dynamically loaded at runtime. We have been working with this system for a very long time and static linking external libs to the package DLL is really the only reliable way to prevent DLL problems across Windows versions/configurations > I'm not trying to block support for a static libpq, I just don't see the > point. This is a bit overgeneralized, there are many use cases where static linking is the only feasible way. Most libs support --enable static and many distros ship both static and shared libs and leave it up to user or developer author how to configure their application. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers