Re: LibGSF on Windows

["Ivan, Wong Yat Cheung" <ivanwong gnome org>]

Hi,

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> I changed it to libz.dll.a as you suggested, and configure went off 
> without a hitch.  make install complained about the lack of -lzdll, so i 
> copied the same file to libzdll.a as it was originally.  This appeared 
> to work.  Thanks!
libtool shouldn't look for -lzdll unless a pc (pkg-config) file of 
another package asks for it. Could you please check that?

> There is no libiconv.la at all (which I think is what the warning is 
> suggesting).
This is strange. The message "warning: library 
`c:/MinGW/lib/libiconv.la' was moved" often means that the value of 
'libdir' in libiconv.la doesn't match with the path where libiconv.la is 
actually placed (i.e. c:/MinGW/lib/). This warning message is in fact 
critical to the Win32 build, and the subject library will not be linked 
correctly. IMHO, we should purge all unnecessary .la files when using 
libtool on Win32. I always do that.

> [1]   because it seemed more recent and coherent than the one from TML 
> [2] which had been used in its 1.8.1 version for previous versions.  Is 
> this what you would recommend?
I would recommend [2] as it's actually the official Win32 binary of iconv:

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/

Cheers,
Ivan.