Re: mingw32 build (was Re: slrn 0.9.9 release plans)

[*John E. Davis*,([email protected])]
[<[email protected]>]
>> 1) Unable to typecast Null_Type to String_Type 

Traceback: sprintf
.\macros\xface.sl:14:update_xface:Type Mismatch
  Local variables for update_xface:
	String_Type xface = ""
	Null_Type home = NULL
	Undefined_Type fxface = Undefined_Type
	Undefined_Type h = Undefined_Type
.\macros\xface.sl:23:show_xface:Type Mismatch
.\macros\hooks.sl:33:SYS_read_article_hook:Type Mismatch

where xface.sl:
14: variable fxface = sprintf("%s/xface.$$$", home);
23: update_xface(extract_displayed_article_header("X-Face"));

>> 2) Charsets - same errors as in previous version.
>
> Not surprising considering that the native windows version does not
> have support for character set translation enabled.  For this, a
> windows equivalent of iconv will be required.  As I stated before, I
> know next to nothing about windows, and even less about character set
> handling under windows.

Iconv and gettext binaries are available on mingw page and I hope they will
be used when you got time (and inclination) to work on compiling slrn by msys.

> You may need to install UTF-8 specific fonts.

It will be difficult - in cmd.exe you can choose between only one raster
font and one unicode - Lucida Console. Anyway, I tested it with windows
binary of 'less' and it works, showing cyrillic characters.

> In addition, you may
> have to set the LANG environment variable to something like
> "pl_PL.UTF-8" to force slang into UTF-8 mode.

Sorry, no change.

Marcin Wiśniewski
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