Re: Will the real libiconv please stand up! Was : Re: [Mingw-users] baby steps, an half-finshed packaging of libiconv (very boring)

[Bruno Haible <bruno clisp org>]

James Michael DuPont writes:
> > I think the confusion would be less if the
> > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ page would state clearly which
> > environment/compiler they use: mingw32 or pw32 or cygwin or msvc.
> Well, you do have to click a few times to find it,
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html tells you that mingw is
> needed.

Then there is competition between between this site and
http://mingwrep.sourceforge.net/, and it would be best if these two
projects described how they differ, and whether packages from one site
are interoperable with packages from the other site.

> > * If you want pw32 binaries, go to http://pw32.sourceforge.net/
> Do you know where to find libiconv there?

No I'm not aware of a port of libiconv to pw32.

> The only things that were a problem were some
> linking problems,

Strange. With the mingw-2.1 (which I got from
http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html,
*not* from http://www.mingw.org/)
libiconv builds out of the box.

> But on the webpage here :
> http://www.gnu.org/directory/libiconv.html
> It states : "This is not a GNU package."
>
> (Note that it (Broken) links to here which is not here:
> ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz

Thanks for reporting this; will be fixed.

Bruno