X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201403042014.s24KEOAA008421@delorie.com> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:08:12 +0100 From: Juan Manuel Guerrero To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU libiconv 1.14 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of GNU libiconv 1.14 to MSDOS/DJGPP. LIBICONV is a character set conversion library and provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which do not have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. This library provides the requiered functionality to recode on-the-fly from UNIX charsets to MSDOS codepages. The mapping from language codes to DOS codepages is contained in the charset.alias file located in the /dev/env/DJDIR/lib subdir. Please inspect this file carefully and tell me if the selected DOS codepage is correct for your language. ATTENTION: to compile and use this port with DJGPP 2.03 you will have to replace some headers in your installation and replace some object files in your libc.a This is required to update unsetenv and locale support to the DJGPP 2.04 level. This concerns DJGPP 2.03 users only and is NOT optional. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - There are no DJGPP specific changes to the sources at all. Starting with version 1.6, the official GNU distribution has build-in DJGPP support so this package should compile out-of-the-box. Unfortunately this is no longer true for the configuration step. This package can no longer be configured out-of-the-box using the djgpp specific files provided by the GNU distribution. The djgpp specific configuration files are no longer maintained and thus useless. I have renamed the original /djgpp directories into /djgpp.old and kept it for completeness reasons. Their content is completely useless nowadays. Do not use them. The new configuration files are stored now in the new /djgpp directory. - It is important to understand that this port does not have nor will ever provide code to identify SFN aliases that have numeric tails. IOW, it is the user's responsibility to disable numeric tail generation on all OS where this is possible before installing packages that have NLS support or the program compiled with this library will fail when LFN support has been disabled. E.g.: the port will be able to find a file like charset.alias if LFN support is enabled and it will be able to find charset.ali if LFN support is disabled but it will __NEVER__ be able to find charset~1.ali. On WIN95/98 systems and plain DOS with DOSLFN, the user _must_ always turn off the generation of numeric tails for 8.3 aliases the OS creats for long file names _before_ package installation or the package will not work in a dual DOS/WIN9X (SFN/LFN) environment (it will work on Win[9X|2K|XP] where the long file name (charset.alias) is available but it will not work on plain DOS where an alias like charset~1.ali will be visible instead of the 8.3 truncated short file name, this is charset.ali). - The following applies to DJGPP 2.03 users _ONLY_: To be able to compile AND use libiconv (and GNU gettext) with your applications that shall be compiled using djdev203, you will need to update the locale and unsetenv support of libc.a to the level provided by DJGPP 2.04 and later. It is also usefull to resolve a function name clash that exists in libc.a from djdev203. The port provides all required locale and unsetenv specific files in the djgpp/djgpp-2.03 directory of the binary archive. These are the header files: locale.h and stdlib.h and the object files: lconv.o, setlocal.o, strcoll.o, strftime.o and unsetenv.o All source files used are from the CVS repository. To update your DJGPP 2.03 C library and headers proceed as follow: 1: change into the gnu/libiconv-1.14/djgpp/djgpp-2.03 directory. 2: replace the locale and stdlib header with the new one like this: cp -vf locale.h /dev/env/DJDIR/include/locale.h cp -vf stdlib.h /dev/env/DJDIR/include/stdlib.h 3: replace the object files in your libc.a with the new ones like this: ar -rv /dev/env/DJDIR/lib/libc.a *.o Now you have enough locale and unsetenv support to use libiconv.a, libunistring.a and GNU gettext together with DJGPP 2.03. Please note that this procedure is __NOT__ optional and must be done before you start using the libraries. If you do not update libc.a as described the port will be useless for you. It is also usefull to fix a function name clash existing in DJGPP 2.03. The function name gettext from the GNU gettext library collides with BORLAND-compatibility gettext function name declared in conio.h. To resolve this, conio.h and conio.o must be replaced in your DJGPP 2.03 installation. To update your DJGPP 2.03 C library and header proceed as follow: 1: extract the binary archive of the gettext port into some temporary directory and change into the gnu/gettext-0.18.3.2/djgpp/djgpp-2.03 directory. 2: replace the conio header with the new one like this: cp -vf conio.h /dev/env/DJDIR/include/conio.h 3: replace the object file in your libc.a with the new one like this: ar -rv /dev/env/DJDIR/lib/libc.a *.o It is also worth to update the getpwnam function and the passwd structure. They are required for gettext anyway. To update your DJGPP 2.03 C library and header proceed as follow: 1: extract the binary archive of the gettext port into some temporary directory and change into the gnu/gettext-0.18.3.2/djgpp/djgpp-2.03 directory. 2: replace the conio header with the new one like this: cp -vf pwd.h /dev/env/DJDIR/include/pwd.h 3: replace the object file in your libc.a with the new one like this: ar -rv /dev/env/DJDIR/lib/libc.a *.o You are done. Again, all this concerns the DJGPP 2.03 users only. - To be able to configure, compile and run the test suite of this package you will need LFN support. - As usual, all DJGPP specific stuff is located in /djgpp dir. - This port provides NLS support. It has been configured with NLS support enabled. If you prefer no NLS, then reconfigure the sources passing the no-nls option to the config.bat file. Please read the documentation to become familiar with this product. The binary and source packages can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp: 2014-02-21): Libiconv 1.14 binary and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv114b.zip Libiconv 1.14 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv114s.zip The binaries have been produced a second time using a freshly compiled libc.a from the CVS repository code. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2014-02-21): Libiconv 1.14 binary and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/licv114b.zip Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Libiconv specific bugs must be reported to . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel