[Mingw-users] linking with libintl.a

[Markus G. <ma...@ge...>]

Hello,

when trying to build a gettext-using application on MinGW, I always get
undefined references to `libintl_gettext', `libintl_bindtextdomain', and
`libintl_textdomain'.

I already went away from my autoconf'ed and automade packages in order to get
manual control about what happens when building the project. My manually-made
build command line reads:

g++ \
-I. -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/gtkmm-2.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/lib/gtkmm-2.0/include -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/gtk-2.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/gdk-2.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/lib/gtk-2.0/include -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/glib-2.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/lib/glib-2.0/include -IC:/msys/1.0/target/lib/sigc++-1.2/include -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/sigc++-1.2 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/pango-1.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/target/include/atk-1.0 -IC:/msys/1.0/local/include -IC:/MinGW/include/mysql \
magecape/*.cc gnuclerk/*.cc src/*.cc \
-LC:/msys/1.0/local/lib -LC:/msys/1.0/target/lib -LC:/MinGW/lib \
-lintl -liconv -lgtkmm-2.0 -lgdkmm-2.0 -latkmm-1.0 -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lpangomm-1.0 -lglibmm-2.0 -lsigc-1.2 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangowin32-1.0 -lgdi32 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lmysqlclient -lzlib -lwsock32 -lcrypt32 -lm -lsqlplus \
-o gnuclerk # -D LOCALEDIR="\"C:/msys/1.0/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES\""

The directory `magecape' contains a header file providing the good old _()
macro, whereas the `gnuclerk' and `src' directories contain sources that
actually use it.

Calling this command line, I get the error message:

C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccWmlaaa.o(.text+0x52e):abstractview.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccWmlaaa.o(.text+0xbf3):abstractview.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccqqoaaa.o(.text+0x68e):customermodel.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccqqoaaa.o(.text+0x13cf):customermodel.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccArpaaa.o(.text+0xbc8):customerview.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/ccArpaaa.o(.text+0xebb):customerview.cc: more undefined references to `libintl_gettext' follow
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/cc0IEaaa.o(.text+0x8c):main.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_bindtextdomain'
C:\DOKUME~1\markus\LOKALE~1\Temp/cc0IEaaa.o(.text+0x9c):main.cc: undefined reference to `libintl_textdomain'

The only thing I'm sure about is that this error is not caused by my gettext
installation: I already wrote a little test program (Internationalized
"hello"), and it builds fine with `gcc hello.c -lintl -o hello'. (Well, it
doesn't find its .mo file, but this is another problem.) So linking of libintl
works in principle. It only doesn't in my command line above.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

  Markus