Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Unneeded Qt dependency

[Mark Brand]

> > Also, do you have a minimal example showing where a text conversion only
> > works when with -no-iconv?
>
> I've rebuilt everything with vanilla mingw-cross-env in order to test 
> properly (my version is *heavily* modified, including patches (even 
> for modifying binutils to do dead-code stripping) and lots of 
> configuration changes.)  It seems it works just fine even without 
> -no-iconv.  So the non-working QTextCodec does not appear with default 
> mingw-cross-env.
>
> However, I cannot explain why.  The docs clearly mention that to use 
> the charset conversion plugins in static builds, you have to 
> explicitly include them.  Why they work regardless if you build with 
> '-iconv" is a mystery to me, since iconv is not actually used for 
> anything on Windows.

Well, at this point I'm relieved to find out that the old way without 
-no-iconv really was broken. The test 'tests/auto/qtextcodec' fails 
spectacularly:


********* Start testing of tst_QTextCodec *********
Config: Using QTest library 4.7.3, Qt 4.7.3
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::initTestCase()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::threadSafety()
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::toUnicode(korean-eucKR) 'c != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(131) : failure location
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::codecForName()
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(data32) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(data33) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc2) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc3) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc4) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc5) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc6) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc7-bis) 'codec != 0' returned 
FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc11) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::fromUnicode(doc18) 'codec != 0' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(262) : failure location
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::toUnicode_codecForHtml()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::toUnicode_incremental()
SKIP   : tst_QTextCodec::codecForLocale() This test is not implemented 
on Windows
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(357) : failure location
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::asciiToIscii()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::flagCodepointFFFF()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::flagF7808080()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::flagEFBFBF()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::decode0D()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::codecForIndex()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::aliasForUTF16()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::mibForTSCII()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::utf8Codec()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::utf8bom()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::utfHeaders()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::codecForHtml()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::codecForUtfText()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::invalidNames()
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::checkAliases()
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::moreToFromUnicode(BIG5) 'c' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(2232) : failure location
FAIL!  : tst_QTextCodec::moreToFromUnicode(GB2312) 'c' returned FALSE. ()
../tst_qtextcodec.cpp(2232) : failure location
PASS   : tst_QTextCodec::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 21 passed, 13 failed, 1 skipped
********* Finished testing of tst_QTextCodec *********

The tests all pass using the latest mingw-cross-env (changeset 
1898:33a76ea753c6).

Thanks again Nikos.

Mark