Re: [PORTS] Windows static link

From: Israel Brewster <israel(at)frontierflying.com>
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 13:47:04 EST

On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Israel Brewster wrote:

> Ok, now that I got everything working on the Mac side of things, I
> am moving on to windows, and, naturally, running into problems.
> Specifically, I downloaded the PostgreSQL installer from the win32
> directory and installed it on my windows 2000 box, making sure to
> select the development libraries. This installed lib, bin, and
> include directories on my drive as expected. So far, so good.
>
> Next I tried to use those libraries to make a static build of the Qt
> development tools, making sure to specify the -I <postgres include
> path>, -l pq, and -L <postgres lib path> command line switches. The
> first error I ran into was "unable to locate file for -lpq". After
> some googling, I came across this page ( http://www.rag.com.au/linux/qt4howto.html
> ), with instructions on using reimp and dlltool on the libmysql.lib
> and mysql.dll files to produce a .a file. I tried the same procedure
> on the libpq.lib and libpq.dll files, which did produce a .a file
> and eliminate the "unable to locate file" error, but perhaps this
> was wrong?
>
> At any rate, while this did allow the configure and make command to
> run through normally, the make install (which actually does quite a
> bit of compiling itself) command failed with multiple "undefined
> reference to PQ<xyz>" errors. Judging by the PQ prefix on all of the
> functions, it would appear to me that they are PostgreSQL related,
> and that as such the postgreSQL library is not functioning properly.
> Given the procedure I went through to get the build to recognize the
> library at all, I'm not surprised, but if someone could help me fix
> it, it would be appreciated. Thanks!

Ok, I managed to figure out how to compile PostgreSQL from source, and did so using the --disable-shared and --without-zlib flags to configure. This produced a libpq.a file that was somewhat larger than the one produced by my previous attempts, which seems promesing to me. However, make (or skiiping make and just doing make install, as the instructions I found said) failed with the following output:

gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline - Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing pg_ctl.o win32ver.o -L../../../src/port -lpgport -L../../../src/ interfaces/libpq -lpq -L../../../src/port -Wl,--allow-multiple- definition -lpgport -lm -lws2_32 -lshfolder -o pg_ctl.exe

../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-connect.o)(.text+0x6dc):fe- 
connect.c: undefined reference to `DeleteSecurityContext@4'
../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-connect.o)(.text+0x704):fe- 
connect.c: undefined reference to `FreeCredentialsHandle@4'
../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-auth.o)(.text+0x195):fe- 
auth.c: undefined reference to `InitializeSecurityContextA@48'
../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-auth.o)(.text+0x21b):fe- 
auth.c: undefined reference to `FreeContextBuffer@4'
../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-auth.o)(.text+0x293):fe- 
auth.c: undefined reference to `FreeContextBuffer@4'

../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.a(fe-auth.o)(.text+0x326):fe- auth.c: undefined reference to `AcquireCredentialsHandleA@36' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[3]: *** [pg_ctl] Error 1
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2

make: *** [install] Error 2

Also, though libpq.a was generated, when attempting to build an application that uses it I get numerous errors similar to the ones I got when building libpq, such as:

D:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\lib/libpq.a(fe-connect.o)(.text+0x3dc):fe- connect.c: undefined reference to 'WSAStartup@8'

referencing various .0 and .c files and symbols.

How can I make this work? Thanks!

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293

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> Israel Brewster
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> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> (907) 450-7250 x293
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