Mark all GUC variable as PGDLLIMPORT

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Mark all GUC variable as PGDLLIMPORT
Date: 2021-08-22 08:10:33
Message-ID: 20210822081033.kx6op325sbd24cw5@nol
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Hi,

I've been pinged many time over the years to either fix Windows compatibility
or provide DLL for multiple extensions I'm maintaining. I've finally taken
some time to setup a Windows build environment so I could take care of most of
the problem, but not all (at least not in a satisfactory way).

I've also been looking a bit around other extensions and I see that the #1
problem with compiling extensions on Windows is the lack of PGDLLIMPORT
annotations, which is 99% of the time for a GUC.

This topic has been raised multiple time over the years, and I don't see any
objection to add such an annotation at least for all GUC variables (either the
direct variables or the indirect variables set during the hook execution), so
PFA a patch that takes care of all the GUC.

I don't now if that's still an option at that point, but backporting to at
least pg14 if that patch is accepted would be quite helpful.

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v1-0001-Add-PGDLLIMPORT-to-all-direct-or-indirect-GUC-var.patch text/x-diff 46.7 KB

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