Re: Specify how to link with libiconv

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 22/01/2011 9:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > If you have libiconv.dll.a somewhere where ld will look, then just
> > > using -liconv in the link command line should DTRT.  Since ld looks
> > > for libiconv.dll.a _before_ libiconv.a, the presence of the latter
> > > shouldn't matter.
> > Typically I would say that's the case, except make's configure is
> > resolving to the actual library:
> >
> > checking how to link with libiconv... /mingw/lib/libiconv.a
> I doubt that the Make's configure script supports MinGW.  If you can
> propose a change for the configury to DTRT with dynamic linking
> against DLLs, please do.

By default the make's configure script works fine with the static 
libintl / libiconv for MinGW.  Following up on the mingw-dvlpr mailing 
list, I found out the necessary change to configure (specifically 
config.rpath) to allow configure to pick up on the shared libraries.  
For details see:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26942209

Thank you,

Chris