[ python-Bugs-1000298 ] Windows support

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Bugs item #1000298, was opened at 2005-04-28 01:02
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Category: BE/TEOP
Group: To do
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 3
Submitted By: James Pye (jwp)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Windows support

Initial Comment:
I'm not even sure where to begin as I do not have a Windows box. There are various issues with the build script that will surely fail.

Primarily the stupidity of ldistutil's custom build_so command to make shared objects.

Also, the PL library uses elf's _init routine to initialize Python and import the necessary libraries. There is an attempt to provide a Window's version of that, but I have little confidence that it will work as it is.

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>Comment By: James Pye (jwp)
Date: 2007-12-02 15:36

Message:
Migration to a build system using PGXS will likely fix this issue. I believe I have successfully gotten the Python extension to build, but never the Postgres extension.

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Comment By: James Pye (jwp)
Date: 2005-06-26 00:47

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After some review, I am not sure if ldistutils will be able to handle it easily; surely not elegantly. Both build_so and build_ext suffer from the same resulting problem, missing PostgreSQL symbols. I assume this is resolved by linking against -lpostgres, which, at first glance, appeared to be the in PG's bin directory, but failed to work. There is also some extra hackery that needs to take place somewhere in the configure function: The python lib needs to be rebuilt against mingw32.

Also, asprintf is missing from mingw32, so a workaround will be necessary(thinking PyString_FromFormat).

(Note: sources probably need to be compiled with -mdll)

All in all, ugh.

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