Re: [patch] build issues on Win32

2010/3/11 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des(at)des(dot)no>:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>> I would be sad about this. It seems likely there are platforms where
>> it's important. But I'm not really about to spend the effort to fix it
>> up myself and I agree it wouldn't be worth hacking the source to get
>> it to work. I'm a bit puzzled why the symbol conflicts occur only with
>> static linking though -- it seems like static linking would give more
>> opportunity to isolate symbols than dynamic linking, not less. Perhaps
>> our static linking rules are broken?
>
> A dynamic library is a single entity with a certain degree of isolation.
> You can hide symbols so they are only visible within that library.

In particular, libpq only exports a fixed subset of symbols on any
platform that supports that (which includes Windows).

AFAIK, there is no way to make that restriction on static libraries,
at least not on Windows.

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