Re: Gettext on win(woe)32

[Bruno Haible]

David Bruce wrote:
> If, for example, I use "set LANG=nn_NO" (a supported lingua), the program 
> terminates immediately at the first call of gettext().  ...  Windows displays
> a dialog saying my program encountered an error and had to terminate

This is not the expected behaviour of the gettext() function.

> I cross-build the Windows version of my program on Debian using Debian's 
> cross-tools package and libgw32c.a.

I'm not sure that this is a supported platform for GNU gettext. The Windows
platforms that are supported are:
  - cygwin (www.cygwin.com),
  - mingw (build environment: either MSYS, or cygwin with -mno-cygwin flag
    everywhere, see README.woe32).

[1] says "Use of LibGw32c as a separate development library is very
complicated."

> checking host system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc

This also looks very fishy: mingw implies the use of GCC as compiler, not
MSVC.

> checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv

On these platforms, libintl relies on libiconv. Without having installed
libiconv first, you cannot hope to get gettext() work right.

Bruno

[1] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm