Re: Specify how to link with libiconv

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:01:40 -0500
> From: Chris Sutcliffe <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> > If you have libiconv.dll.a somewhere where ld will look, then just
> > using -liconv in the link command line should DTRT.  Since ld looks
> > for libiconv.dll.a _before_ libiconv.a, the presence of the latter
> > shouldn't matter.
> 
> Typically I would say that's the case, except make's configure is 
> resolving to the actual library:
> 
> checking how to link with libiconv... /mingw/lib/libiconv.a

I doubt that the Make's configure script supports MinGW.  If you can
propose a change for the configury to DTRT with dynamic linking
against DLLs, please do.