Re: Specify how to link with libiconv

On 21/01/2011 7:29 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:01:45 -0500
>> From: Chris Sutcliffe<[email protected]>
>>
>> How do I go about specifying how to link with libiconv?  By default
>> configure is looking for libiconv.a, but I'd like to link to
>> libiconv.dll.a (the shared library for MinGW).
> This is not really a Make question, it's a Binutils question.
>
> 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've tried setting the LIBICONV environment variable prior to
>> running configure but it seems to be ignored.
> Something like "LDFLAGS=-liconv ./configure" should do the trick, I
> think.

I tried this approach with the same results.