[vlc] Re: Compiling VLC - problem with libiconv

[amin xu]

pls try MINGW/MSYS. :-)



On 10/19/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thought I'd try my hand at VLC hacking, so I thought I'd start off by just
> trying to compile it.
>
> Started off trying to compile it on my Linux laptop.  But it has an old
> version of Fedora... and VLC needs newer tools versions than what that
> computer has... so I decided to try it on my laptop with MS Windows on it.
> (Need something to test site in IE on.  But anways....)
>
> I downloaded Cygwin, and installed a whole bunch of stuff (that
> ./configure complained about) but I eventually came to a problem.
>
> Here's the last 5 lines from ./configure...
>
> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> checking whether included gettext is requested... no
> checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
> checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no
> configure: error: libiconv is needed for VLC to work properly
>
> The thing is, libiconv seems to be there.  (It's in the /lib folder.)
>
> Is this a problem someone else has seen before?  Anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
>
> See ya
>
> --
>     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
>     charles @ reptile.ca
>     supercanadian @ gmail.com
>
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