Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 12/02/2014 19:19, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-02-12 19:13:07 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 12/02/2014 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hm. So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
>>> we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
>>> the other Windows builds?
>
>> If I am not wrong "--enable-auto-import" is already the
>> default on cygwin build chain ( binutils >= 2.19.51 ) so it should make no
>> difference on latest cygwin. Not sure for you 1.7.7 build enviroment.
>
> We're *disabling* not *enabling* it.

remove is not disable if enable is already the default inside
binutils and gcc. Or I am missing something ?

>> About PGDLLIMPORT , my build log is full of "warning: ‘optarg’ redeclared
>> without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored "
>
> That should be fixed then. I guess cygwin's getopt.h declares it that way?

from /usr/include/getopt.h

#ifndef __INSIDE_CYGWIN__
extern int __declspec(dllimport) opterr; /* if error message
should be printed */
extern int __declspec(dllimport) optind; /* index into parent
argv vector */
extern int __declspec(dllimport) optopt; /* character checked for
validity */
extern int __declspec(dllimport) optreset; /* reset getopt */
extern char __declspec(dllimport) *optarg; /* argument associated
with option */
#endif

>
>> I suspect that removing will also make no difference.
>
> The committed patch explicitly disables the functionality.
>
>> PS: we aim unix-like builds not windows one....
>
> Well, there are a significant number of caveats around the auto import
> functionality, so there seems little benefit in using it if all the
> declspec's have to be there anyway.

I think that I am not currently using anymore the declspec in the build.
But I could be wrong, as the the postgresql build way
is the most complicated between all the ones I am dealing with.

> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>

Cheers
Marco