Re: [Bug-wget] Wget reports : This version does not have support for IRIs

[Darshit Shah]

On 31 May 2017 at 10:15, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/31/2017 09:48 AM, Cos Chan wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Darshit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> This occurs because you are running a version of Wget that was compiled
> >> without IRI support.
> >>
> >> See. the output of `wget --version`, it shows "-iri". However you tried
> to
> >> explicitly set the encodings which requires IRI support. Either remove
> the
> >> --remote-encoding and --local-encoding switches, or use a version of
> Wget
> >> with IRI support compiled in.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thanks, May I know how to build wget with iri supporting?
>
> We do not directly support Windows builds.
>
>
But this is a BSD Build. The version string says:
"GNU Wget 1.19 built on freebsd11.0. "

Building on Windows is a tedious work. Since there is no packaging, you
> likely have to first build all the dependencies (and dependencies of
> dependencies, ...).
>
> Jernej Simončič offers Windows builds of Wget on
> https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/.
>
> But I can't say if these builds have IRI support or not, give it a try.
>
> Back when I had a Windows VM, I installed CygWin that comes with all
> packages prebuild. It offers a *nix layer with all those fancy *nix
> tools (bash, gcc, ssh, ...). I loved it.
>
> With Best Regards, Tim
>
>


-- 
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah