> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Martijn van Oosterhout > Sent: 10 November 2005 15:42 > To: Magnus Hagander > Cc: Merlin Moncure; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org; > pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] win32 8.1 pgadmin dll issues > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > My dev box was running 8.1rc1 and I thought it was time to > > > put 8.1 on it. I downloaded the 8.1 binaries-only dist off > > > of postgresql.org (bt version), did a binary swap on my > > > server and nothing ran...it turns out all the binaries like > > > initdb.exe, postgres.exe have a dll dependency on various > > > pgAdmin dlls like comerr32.dll and several others. pgAdmin > > > was not installed on my server so nothing worked. I copied > > > the .dlls from the pgAdmin folder on my workstation and > > > postgres starts up. > > > > Exactly what DLLs are those? > > comerr32.dll is a Kerberos DLL and not a pgAdmin DLL.. > > I wonder if this is an artifact of the "link everything into every > binary even if we don't use it" procedure. Hence the postmaster can > depend on readline even though it doesn't use it. > > With gcc we're proposing --as-needed to resolve this, but how would > that work for a windows platform? Can you examine a binary to see what > it depends on?
Those are the only dependencies, and are all intentional. Regards, Dave ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly