Re: doc: pgevent.dll location

On 06.11.24 13:57, Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu) wrote:
> The dll install paths are changed as follows on Windows.
>
> (1) pgevent.dll
> PG16: lib/
> PG17: bin/
>
> (2) dll for user (like libpq.dll, libecpg.dll)
> PG16: Both in lib/ and bin/
> PG17: bin/
>
> (3) contrib dll (like amcheck.dll)
> PG16: lib/
> PG17: lib/
>
>
> I understand that Dave says (1) and (2) should exist on bin/ directory
> and the paths in PG17 are correct.
>
> So, I think it is correct to update documentation.

I don't have Windows handy to test it out, but looking at the respective
build system source files, in master, pgevent is built and installed
like a normal shared library in both meson.build and Makefile, so it
should end up somewhere in lib.

In src/tools/msvc in REL_16_STABLE, I see some code that appears to
suggest that it installs in bin.

Again, this is just reading the code, but it seems to be backwards from
what is claimed earlier.

The statements like "in PGxxx it did this" are not precise enough
because there are three possible build systems. We need to know what
each build system is doing. Also, the consideration of consistency
should go in two dimensions: Consistency between versions and
consistency between build systems.