Re: [HACKERS] win32 8.1 pgadmin dll issues

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
> Martijn van Oosterhout
> Sent: 10 November 2005 15:42
> To: Magnus Hagander
> Cc: Merlin Moncure; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org;
> pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] win32 8.1 pgadmin dll issues
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > My dev box was running 8.1rc1 and I thought it was time to
> > > put 8.1 on it. I downloaded the 8.1 binaries-only dist off
> > > of postgresql.org (bt version), did a binary swap on my
> > > server and nothing ran...it turns out all the binaries like
> > > initdb.exe, postgres.exe have a dll dependency on various
> > > pgAdmin dlls like comerr32.dll and several others. pgAdmin
> > > was not installed on my server so nothing worked. I copied
> > > the .dlls from the pgAdmin folder on my workstation and
> > > postgres starts up.
> >
> > Exactly what DLLs are those?
> > comerr32.dll is a Kerberos DLL and not a pgAdmin DLL..
>
> I wonder if this is an artifact of the "link everything into every
> binary even if we don't use it" procedure. Hence the postmaster can
> depend on readline even though it doesn't use it.
>
> With gcc we're proposing --as-needed to resolve this, but how would
> that work for a windows platform? Can you examine a binary to see what
> it depends on?

Those are the only dependencies, and are all intentional.

Regards, Dave