John Darrington writes: > I am sorry for my ignorance but why is libiconv needed when > targeting mingw? > > Because Microsoft does not implement iconv, and presumably this package needs > it.
As this is about the mingw port, it would be because the mingw c library does not bundle iconv. It's a good question, it puzzles me too why GNU libc decides to bundle or duplicate the GNU iconv functionality. In general (webkit, qt), such practice is frowned upon? Greetings, Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.nl
