Re: [Mingw-users] compiling gettext

[Max B. <ma...@uk...>]

Brian Keith Kropf wrote:
> I've been trying copmile the gettext package from the mingw page, and
> I'm running into trouble.  I'm using msys 1.08 and gcc 3.2.3 on an XP
> box.  I've tried the usual ./configure make and end up with this error:
>
> .libs/msgl-charset.o(.text+0x2ff): In function
> `compare_po_locale_charsets':
> c:/dev/temp/gettext-0.11.5/src/msgl-charset.c:57: undefined reference
> to `locale_charset'
> make[3]: *** [libgettextsrc.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/dev/temp/gettext-0.11.5/src'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/dev/temp/gettext-0.11.5/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/dev/temp/gettext-0.11.5'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I've tried previously with earlier versions of gcc and had similar
> results.  Does anyone have a clue what else I need to specify to get it
> working?

No released version of gettext supports MinGW out-of-the-box. There is a
(5.6MB !!!) patch in MinGW CVS at SourceForge ( ports/gettext/0.11.5 ), or
you could try a 0.12 pre-release, which are supposed to work on MinGW.


Max.