From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: install libpq.dll in bin directory on Windows / Cygwin |
Date: | 2013-07-25 21:08:41 |
Message-ID: | 51F193D9.3070305@dunslane.net |
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On 07/25/2013 05:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Jeff Janes asked me about this, and Bruce just tripped up on it.
>> Usually on Windows it's necessary to have libpq.dll/cygpq.dll either
>> in the PATH or in the same directory as client .exe files. The
>> buildfarm client has for many years simply copied this dll from the
>> installation lib to the installation bin directory after running
>> "make install". But I can't really see why we don't do that as part
>> of "make install" anyway. I haven't tested but I think something
>> like this patch would achieve this goal - it would fix something
>> that's tripped a lot of people up over the years.
> Seems a reasonable workaround for a silly platform bug. Do you need to
> patch the MSVC stuff as well?
MSVC already does it - see src/tools/msvc/Install.pm:
lcopy($target . '/lib/libpq.dll', $target . '/bin/libpq.dll');
cheers
andrew
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