Re: doc: pgevent.dll location

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Cc: "Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu)" <r(dot)takahashi_2(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: doc: pgevent.dll location
Date: 2024-11-12 21:11:44
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaCFjcUmRu-GMV3E1G3wZLDm8O+-4XYdW8Zx_P2Z4+qqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> On 12.11.24 18:27, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> >> So the most straightforward way to "make it work like it used to" would
> >> be to change src/bin/pgevent/meson.build to use shared_module() instead
> >> of shared_library().
> >>
> >> Based on the explanation in the documentation, this file is really more
> >> of a plugin and less a shared library, so I think that approach would be
> >> more correct than not.
> >
> > I don't understand what the difference is between a shared module and
> > a shared library, so I find it odd that meson treats them differently.
>
> In this context, a shared module is something like plpgsql or hstore
> that you dlopen, and a shared library is something like libpq or libecpg
> that you -l at build time.

That's interesting, but I would have thought both of those would go in
libdir (or a subdirectory) not bindir.

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Robert Haas
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