Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Another iconv doc suggestion, for README.woe32

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Perry Rapp wrote:
> I suggest adding the following line to the top of README.woe32
> (or something similar -- obviously Bruno may be able to state
> this more accurately):
> 
> WARNING: This file documents how to build iconv
> with Microsoft Visual C++, but starting with version 1.12,
> iconv is expected to be compiled with a real gcc toolkit
> such as cygwin or mingw on MS-Windows platforms, and
> support for Microsoft Visual C++ as a build development
> has been dropped.

Thanks for the suggestion. In the libiconv CVS, the README.woe32 file has
already been replaced with the following text:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):

Building requires the mingw development environment (includes gcc).
MS Visual C/C++ with "nmake" is no longer supported.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Cygwin is not mentioned here, since it is a regular Unix platform and
therefore covered through INSTALL.generic.

Bruno