X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201803041716.w24HGEvG032329@delorie.com> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:36:20 +0100 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU libiconv 1.15 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 1.15 to MSDOS/DJGPP. LIBICONV is a character set conversion library and provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't 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: the support for DJGPP 2.03 has been dropped. The DJGPP 2.05 version of this port provides the libraries as DXE3 modules instead of static libraries. 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. Unfortunatly 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 The djgpp specific configuration files are no longer maintained and thus useless.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 completness 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 responsability 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). - You can build and use the iconv library either as static library or as a DXE3 loadble module. Please note that the port of iconv has been configured and compiled as DXE3 module but it contains both versions of the libraries. The static version of the library and the binaries are stored in the /gnu/libiconv-1.15/djgpp/static directory of the binary archive. The DXE3 module of the libraries and binaries compiled with it are stored in their usual place so they will be used as defaults. If you want to use the static version instead of the DXE3 modules copy the contents of the /static directory to your installation tree. The DXE3 versions of the libraries are always paires of files. One is the import library used during the linking of the application, the other one is the DXE3 module loaded at runtime. The names are: /lib/libcharset.a /lib/libcharset.dxe /lib/libiconv.a /lib/libiconv.dxe The files with the ".a" extension are the import libraries created by the dxe3gen tool. The ".a" extension for the import libraries has been choosed intentionaly so that linking rules in existing Makefiles do not need to be adjusted. To compile DXE3 modules you must compile like this: make MAKE_DXE3=y If MAKE_DXE3 is omitted then the normal static libraries will be build. To run the test suite you must start make like this: make check MAKE_DXE3=y If MAKE_DXE3 is omitted then LD_LIBRARY_PATH will not be set to point to the freshly build but still not installed DXE3 modules and the testsuite will fail because the test binaries cannot load the modules at run-time. To install the products start make like this: make install prefix=/some/dir MAKE_DXE3=y If MAKE_DXE3 is omitted then every thing will be installed except for the DXE3 modules. - 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 flag to the config.bat file. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3. There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the massive use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. All the changes done to the original distribution are documented in the diffs file and located together with all the files needed to configure the package (config.bat, config.sed, config.site, etc.) in the /djgpp directory. Please read the documentation to become familiar with this product. This is a verbatim extract of the NEWS file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New in 1.15: * The UTF-8 converter now rejects surrogates and out-of-range code points. * Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. * Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character. * The functions now support strings longer than 2 GB. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual two packages that have been produced using djdev205 and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2018-02-12): Libiconv 1.15 binary and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv115b.zip Libiconv 1.15 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv115s.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