[Pljava-dev] Windows binaries

On 2011-01-28 5:38 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:51:34 -0000, Eric Kolotyluk
> <eric.kolotyluk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Enterprise DB do not seem to have a binary release of 64-bit Postgres
>> Plus for me to try.
>>
>> At the moment this is a bit of a showstopper for us as we need to be
>> able to deploy on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
>
> That is unfortunate. At the moment I do not envision having the time
> to build Windows binaries until after February 11th. There are mainly
> two things that stop me. First is the complete lack of the Windows
> operating system license and installation media. The second is a
> computer/cpu with virtualization support so I can run 64bit Windows in
> a virtual machine.

Well, we do not need to deploy until well after Feb 11. But it would be
nice to be able to test on 64-bit windows. I do have a high end
workstation with VMWare Workstation, and Windows 7 installation ISOs
with MSDN licenses. If there is any way I could help please let me know.
I can certainly test any DLLs you want me to.

>
>> Off hand neither me nor my colleagues have heard of a situation where a
>> 32-bit DLL does not run on 64-bit windows, so we cannot imagine what is
>> wrong with pljava.dll.
>
> And neither can I. I have heard of incompatible libraries such as
> Python 2.7 components that refused to work together. As I understood
> the story that had nothing to do with 32 vs. 64 bits and had to do
> with incompatible compilers or compilation settings.

I was wondering about the compiler and linker environment you were using
for Windows. Is it GNU or Microsoft?

>
>>> Who can I talk to about the reason pljava does not work on 64-bit
>>> Windows? I have never come across 32-bit software that does not run on
>>> 64-bit windows before. There must be something funny about how they
>>> built the DLL.
>
> In an ideal world that would be I. And I have no idea who to talk to
> at Enterprise DB about this.
>

I have raised the issue on the Enterprise support forum, but have heard
nothing in a week. For the most part I have been trying to avoid having
to build the binaries myself, but I have been able to test my proof of
concept in the allotted time, so I may have an opportunity to go this
route later.

Cheers, Eric