MinGW versus GTK libintl.dll.a building GTK in Windows

["Ian" <ian underpressuredivers com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to build gtk 2.22.1 under Windows. I ran configure from mingw,
which passed OK, then make which made gdk OK, but then gave this error
making gtk:

libtool: link: gcc -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -g -O2 -Wall
-mms-bitfields -o .libs/gtk-update-icon-cache.exe updateiconcache.o
-LC:/GTK/GTK-2.22.1/lib/ -LC:/GTK/GTK-2.22.1/lib -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -L/mingw/lib
c:/mingw/lib/libintl.dll.a /mingw/lib/libiconv.dll.a -L/mingw/lib
updateiconcache.o: In function `main':
c:\Users\Ian\Development\GTK\GTK\gtk+-2.22.1\gtk/updateiconcache.c:1657:
undefined reference to `libintl_setlocale'

There are versions of libintl.dll.a in c:/mingw/lib and in
c:/GTK/GTK-2.22.1/lib. The GTK version includes libintl_setlocale and the
MinGW version does not. So the question is why is the above using the MinGW
version (-L/mingw/lib c:/mingw/lib/libintl.dll.a) rather than the GTK
version? GTK_BASEPATH is set properly.

Ian