[gnome-db] RE: [gimpwin-dev] iconv.dll should be libiconv.dll??

["Fernando Martins" <fmartins hetnet nl>]

From: Tor Lillqvist
> Fernando Martins writes:
>  > I replace /target with /test and run:
>  > $ pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
>  > I got:
>  >  -L/test/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv
>
>  > I'm using pkg-config 0.12.0 on cygwin. Maybe you have another
> pkg-config?
>
> What do you mean with "on cygwin"? Is it a pkg-config.exe that uses
> the POSIX emulation provided by Cygwin? If so, it indeed doesn't have
> the feature I described. (Because there was no such feature originally
> in pkg-config on Unix, and Cygwin intends to look like Unix, so I
> didn't think it would be necessary.)
>

All right, that's it. Sorry for introducing some confusion.

> The replace-prefix-with-actual-location-at-runtime feature is compiled
> only into a native Win32 pkg-config. Such a native Win32 pkg-config is
> available from the www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html page.
>
>  > BTW, what is the development environment (cygwin, mingw, ????)
> you are using
>  > to compile gimpwin?
>
> Mingw compilers and binutils, otherwise Cygwin's make, bash, sed, m4,
> perl etc.
>
> Presumably Cygwin's gcc with the -mno-cygwin switch could be used
> also, if you have fresh versions, as this is said to now work much
> better than previously.
>

Please note that in your porting web page you are saying

"With gcc, you should use the -mno-cygwin and -fnative-struct flags."