Re: Re: [PATCHES] patch for minor Win32 makefile bug

Fred Yankowski writes:

> I don't understand the several uses of DLLLIBS as well as I'd like,
> but here's what I think is going on.
>
> In makefiles/Makefile.win, DLLLIBS lists the libraries needed to build
> the various DLLs associated with the interfaces/* and pl/plpgsql
> directories.  As such it includes '-L$(top_builddir)/src/backend -lpostgres'
> as well as several Cygwin utility libraries.
>
> In backend/Makefile, DLLLIBS lists the libraries needed to build
> postgres.exe.  This does not include '-lpostgres' since postgres.exe
> is built by linking exactly the backend object files that also go into
> libpostgres.a.  (I don't understand this organization.)

ISTM that $(DLLLIBS) in backend/Makefile should be replaced by

$(LDFLAGS) -lcygipc -lcygwin -lkernel32 $(LIBS)

(Presuming that these three libraries are actually needed.  Why isn't
every program linked against -lcygwin?)

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