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? -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
