Tom Lane wrote:
>> PostgreSQL itself seems to use export files that explicitly declare the
>> exported symbols, so it gets away without these decorations.
>
> Except that we don't. There aren't PGDLLEXPORT markings for any
> functions exported from contrib modules, and we don't use dlltool
> on them either. By your argument, none of contrib would work on
> Windows builds at all, but we have a ton of buildfarm evidence and
> successful field use to the contrary. How is that all working?
I thought it was the job of src/tools/msvc/gendef.pl to generate
.DEF files? In the buildfarm logs I can find lines like:
Generating CITEXT.DEF from directory Release\citext, platform x64 Generating POSTGRES_FDW.DEF from directory
Release\postgres_fdw,platform x64
which are emitted by gendef.pl.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe