On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:58:12PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
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.
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?I think the reason is historical. Libc implemented iconv before libiconv became available. I suppose they could drop it, but then a lot of people will be suprised when their programs no longer link. But yes it's not a nice sitation ... especially as the api of the iconv function is gratuitously different between the implementations. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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