Re: Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy

From: "Jan Wieck" <janwieck@yahoo.com>
> Joel Burton wrote:
> > Certainly, we don't need all of cygwin (eg bison, gcc, perl, et al).
We'd
> > need the dll, sh, rm, and few other things. I'm not sure if it would
need to
> > be in the standard cygwin file structure; I know that you can
reconfigure
> > this when you use cygwin (I used to). In any event, instead of having to
> > have a novice pick & guess which of >100 packages they need, we could
put
> > together the 5 or 6 they need.
>
>     Oh,  BTW,  had  anyone  luck  with  loading of user defined C
>     functions or the PL handlers under CygWin? I remember  having
>     had  trouble  with  that.   When  the  C function uses global
>     variables in the backend, things get a bit messy.
   I have a 7.1.3 install with cygwin and I'm using pl/pgsql and a custom
type (with accessor written in a C dll). It never cause me any problem.
My custom dll is not using global var in the backend though.
       cyril