Re: [xml] can't figure out how to build native Windows 'iconv'

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* David Lawless wrote:
> Searched for nearly an hour and dug in the release
> tree and I can't find any clear information on how to
> compile GNU 'libiconv' natively under Windows with
> Visual Studio 2008 and/or 2010.

README.woe32 in the current libiconv sources is pretty clear about this,
"Building requires the mingw or cygwin development environment (includes
gcc). MS Visual C/C++ with "nmake" is no longer supported." There are
various ways to build the library with MingW and then link it with MSVC
into whatever you need it for.

> Have no reservations about using CYGWIN for
> building so long as the 'cl' compiler is used and
> no CYGWIN dependencies are present in the DLLs.

MinGW these days creates executables that depend on some threading DLL
if you need threading at least, that might be a problem.
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