[Mingw-cross-env-list] Compiling iconv 1.14 and gettext 0.19.8.1 for Windows

[Michele Locati]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to mxe (before I used the mingw32 and mingw-w64 ubuntu packages).

I'm trying to build iconv.exe and the gettext tools (msgcat.exe, msgfmt.exe, ...) and I wrote this script (run on a clean Ubuntu server 16.04): https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/tree/mxe

The first problem I met by following the instructions at http://mxe.cc/#tutorial is that the built files should be placed in the directory specified by PKG_CONFIG_PATH (or in PKG_CONFIG_PATH_i686_w64_mingw32_shared for instance when building for 32-bit shared).

From my tests, that's not the case: I had to specify --prefix when running configure.

Furthermore, I tried to compile all the combinations (32/62 bit, shared/static), but everything gets compiled only for 64 bit shared.

Here's the problems for the other 3 combinations:

### building in 32-bit shared

- libiconv builds (iconv.exe, libcharset-1.dll and libiconv-2.dll are created)

- gettext fails (errors: "undefined reference to `_imp__exit_failure'", "undefined reference to `_imp__argmatch_die'", ...)

### building in 32-bit static

- libiconv builds (iconv.exe is created)

- gettext fails (errors: "undefined reference to `_imp__xmlFree'")

### building in 64-bit static

- libiconv builds

- gettext fails (errors: "undefined reference to `_imp__xmlFree'")

Does anyone have a clue about what I could do to fix this?

Thanks a lot,

Michele

PS: once everything will work, I'll publish the binaries at https://mlocati.github.io/gettext-iconv-windows/