Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] libiconv fails to build for Windows (Visual Studio, via cygwin)

[Konstantin Ivlev]

Hi,

you're right, my cygwin installation was missing winres. after installing winres (binutils package), 1st problem was solved. may be adding note to README.windows about winres is worth.

just in case, I am using "--host=x86_64-w64-mingw32", as recommended per README.windows.

second error is more obscure and still happens. it happens only for "--enable-shared --disable-static" configuration.

could you possibly clarify, which auto-configured variables shall I inspect?

2017-10-31 21:27 GMT+07:00 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>:

Hi,

Konstantin Ivlev wrote:
> I am trying to build libiconv for Windows via Visual Studio, I am using
> official instructions from README.windows, and it fails to build with the
> following error:
>
> libtool:   error: unrecognised option: '-DPACKAGE_VERSION_STRING=\"1.15\"'

This is trouble with the 'RC' variable / 'windres' program. Try to see under
which name you have the windres program. If it is named
'i686-pc-mingw32-windres', for example, you need to use the option
--host=i686-pc-mingw32, so that the configuration script finds it.

> but after that, it still fails with the following error:
>
> ../libtool: line 1745: test: too many arguments
> /usr/bin/install: target '../bin/charset-1.dll' is not a directory

You probably need to review the values of the autoconfigured variables in the
various Makefiles.

Bruno