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Since commit cb4a3b04 we were already doing this for the Cygwin/mingw toolchains, but MSVC had not been updated to do it. At Install.pm time, the Makefile (or GNUmakefile) is inspected, and if a line matching SO_MAJOR_VERSION is found (indicating a shared library is being built), then files with the .dll extension are set to be installed in bin/ rather than lib/, while files with .lib extension are installed in lib/. This makes the MSVC toolchain up to date with cygwin/mingw. This removes ad-hoc hacks that were copying files into bin/ or lib/ manually (libpq.dll in particular was already being copied into bin). So while this is a rather ugly kludge, it's still cleaner than what was there before. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed by: Asif Naeem
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