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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: wvWare and cygwin
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:01:18 -0000
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:43:49PM -0800, neal somos wrote:
>> If I make the following change to wv2's configure, I can then make
>> the package
>>
>> 25826c25826
>> < ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS
>> conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
>> ---
>>> ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS
>>> conftest.$ac_ext $LDFLAGS $LIBS >&5'
>>
>> Basically ...
>>  gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 -liconv conftest.c
>> produces quite different results from
>>  gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 conftest.c -liconv
>> which are the compile lines from the test being run by configure.
>>
>> How the original test works elsewhere but fails on cygwin
>> is beyond me at this time.
>
> It's probably expecting that it can do something put
>
> extern int libiconv_close();
>
> in a source file and then just link it.  That doesn't necessarily work
> on Windows.  You may have to mark the declaration with
> declspec(dllimport);.
>
> The function should be auto-imported automatically but maybe there is
> a warning showing up or something which is confusing autoconf.

No, I looked at wv2's configure.in. They are wrongly putting -liconv into
$LDFLAGS, not $LIBS.
It's that gcc link order FAQ all over again.

Max.


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