Building the latest iconv and libxml2 binaries in Win32

c++ mingw libxml2 msys iconv
James Reinke picture James Reinke · Aug 7, 2010 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

I'm trying to get MinGW and MSYS working so I can build iconv and libxml2 in Windows, but I'm finding ./configure and make are giving lots of BSD/Unix related errors that aren't specific enough to google, and not descriptive enough for me to figure out. Can anybody go through some of the steps needed to get iconv and libxml2 .dll/.lib built on a Win32 machine?

I'm updating the libraries for some software and I fiddled around with this all day today and haven't figured it out. I got the newest libpng, zlib and curl built with no issues but I see there isn't much support or how-to's for these libraries like there was for the others. Any help would be very appreciated, thanks in advance for your time.

James

Answer

Deuce picture Deuce · May 16, 2011

I realize that I may be reviving a dead thread, but...

Something that worked for me was to not compile the shared libs, instead deriving them using the a2dll tool as follows:

./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared make make install

a2dll libiconv.a -o iconv.dll mv -iv iconv.dll /mingw/bin/

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