Re: [Patch] Mingw: Fix import library extension, build actual staticlibraries

On 2019-03-07 15:23, Sandro Mani wrote:
> Currently building postgresql for Win32 with a mingw toolchain produces
> import libraries with *.a extension, whereas the extension should be
> *.dll.a.

I have read the MinGW documentation starting from
<http://www.mingw.org/wiki/DLL> and have found no information supporting
this claim.  All their examples match our existing naming.  What is your
source for this information -- other than ...

> There are various downstream workarounds for this, see i.e. [1]
> and [2]. The attached patch 0001-Fix-import-library-extension.patch
> addresses this.

I'm confused what Fedora and Arch Linux have to do with this.  Are they
distributing Windows binaries of third-party software?

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