Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

(2014/02/15 2:32), Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
>>> One thing I'm wondering about is that plperl is linking perlxx.lib
>>> not libperlxx.a. I made a patch following plpython and it also
>>> works here.
>>> Is it worth trying?
> 
>> I hadn't noticed that part of plpython's Makefile before.  Man,
>> that's an ugly technique :-(.  Still, there's little about this
>> platform that isn't ugly.  Let's try it and see what happens.
> 
> And what happens is this:
> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=narwhal&dt=2014-02-14%2017%3A00%3A02
> namely, it gets through plperl now and then chokes with the same
> symptoms on pltcl.  So I guess we need the same hack in pltcl.
> The fun never stops ...

There seems some risk to link msvc import library.
Linking perlxx.lib or tcl.lib worls here but linking pythonxx.lib
doesn't work even in newer machine.

> (BTW, narwhal is evidently not trying to build plpython.  I wonder
> why not?)

Due to *initializer element is not constant* error which also can besee on my old machine.
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+OCxozr=0wkQDF7kfd2n-bJQOwdSUs0Myohg29pA_U5=2pfqA@mail.gmail.com


regards,
Hiroshi Inoue