Re: Build relocation into libintl. (patch)

[Erwin Waterlander]

Op 05-11-09 18:52, Erwin Waterlander schreef:
> I'm using gettext/libintl now for some time. I'm using gettext ports 
> on different operating systems. For the win32 port of my program I use 
> the GnuWin32 port of gettext/libintl (see 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/). The nice thing of this port is that 
> relocation support is builtin. This means that all programs that use 
> this port automatically support relocation out of the box. All 
> programs in the project are relocatable without modifications.
>
> Lately I was trying the MinGW port of gettext/libintl and discovered 
> that relocation didn't work. First I thought it was a bug of the MinGW 
> port. But later I saw that by default there is no relocate support in 
> the libintl library. MinGW uses gettext/libintl unmodified. I noticed 
> that relocation support has been added separately to the gettext (and 
> iconv) programs.
>
> Isn't it a good idea to build relocation support into the library, 
> like the GnuWin32 maintainers did? This way you don't have to take the 
> hassle of adding relocation support to every individual program.

Hi,

I added builtin relocation to MinGW libintl 0.17. The patch can be 
downloaded from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/libintl.html
At the moment it only works if you compile for win32. On 
Unix/Linux/Cygwin the functionality is currently unchanged.
My goal is to get this working for all platforms.

regards,

Erwin