[postgis-devel] Building the extension on Solaris/amd64

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 19/05/13 13:38, Paragon Corporation wrote:

> The equivalent tool for ldd on Windows is depends.exe which should show you
> the DLL versions that are being dynamically linked into a .exe file.
>
>> Note that libtool also creates a copy of liblwgeom.dll (unversioned) which
> points to the latest version which may be what is causing the confusion
> here. I think on Windows a copy of the current version is created because
> Windows can't handle symbolic links (NTFS junctions) correctly.
>
> It builds statically under windows without me doing anything -- doesn't ever
> build as a separate dll so kind of a non-issue for me except during regress.
> I never ever see a liblwgeom.dll being created.

Eh? What version of libtool have you got installed in MSYS? From memory, 
the original one was so old that it was missing a lot of Win* fixes so I 
ended up building my own to get .DLL generation working correctly.


ATB,

Mark.