[gnuwin32 - Help] RE: libiconv unresolved external

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By: keithmarshall

I wouldn't recommend 1.9.1, which is very old, and buggy wrt Win32.  I discovered
a particularly nasty bug about a year ago, in 1.11, which has since been fixed
in CVS.  Although I built my own copy from source, and I didn't package these
myself, I believe that the MinGW build of libiconv-1.11-1 includes the patch
to fix this:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libiconv-1.11-1-bin.tar.bz2
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libiconv-1.11-1-dll.tar.bz2
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/libiconv-1.11-1-src.tar.bz2

Somewhat incongruously perhaps, the bin package provides the development headers
and libraries, and the man pages, together with the iconv.exe tool, but it doesn't
include the DLLs, which are in the dll package.  (I'm not even sure if the iconv.exe
provided can run without the DLLs also being present; I guess I should review
this packaging structure with the gentleman who prepared these packages for us).

Tor Lillqvist's suggestion for an alternative implementation, (Yukihiro Nakadaira's),
would also be worth a look.

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