Re: interix question

[Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de>]

Hi Eric,

ah, I see. I don't expect much problems, because most of the MS 
supplied binaries were built with MSVC and are therefore statically linked.
Only gcc can produce dynamically linked binaries.
You can check the binaries with "file" and "ldd".

I expect, however, that you will encounter much more and much harder 
"problems" than just with iconv/libintl when building more stuff. (You 
could also just disable iconv support while running ./configure in 
this case.)

Good luck

Martin


On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Eric Lindblad wrote:

> Dear Martin Köppe,
>
> Perhaps dependencies was not the correct word.
>
> Running configure scripts often check for the presence of 
> executables and header files.
>
> SFU 3.5 has the files /bin/iconv and /usr/include/iconv.h.
>
> SUA 6.1 has /bin/iconv, /usr/include/iconv.h, /usr/lib/libintl.so, 
> and /usr/lib/libintl.so.8.
>
> What I was looking at was replacing /bin/iconv and 
> /usr/include/iconv.h, with the files from a compile of 
> libiconv-1.11.tar.gz, and on SUA 6.1 also replacing libintl.so and 
> libintl.so.8 with the files from a compile of GNU gettext-0.16.
>
> I don't want to cause problems for remaining executables which were 
> shipped with SFU or SUA.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric Lindblad
> http://www.nurmi-labs.blogspot.com
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 2/2/17, Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: interix question
> To: "Eric Lindblad" <geirfuglaps@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "debian-interix list" <debian-interix@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 9:34 PM
>
>
> Hi
> Eric,
>
> sorry, I don't
> understand your question.
> I could understand
> it as how MS compiled the binaries they ship, but
> I'm not sure, if you really wanted to know
> that.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
>
> On
> Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Eric Lindblad wrote:
>
> > Dear Martin Köppe,
> >
> > Have you any opinion
> on what files from an unmodified SFU Interix
> > 3.5 installation would have been compiled
> using /bin/iconv and
> >
> /usr/include/iconv.h as dependencies?
> >
> > Likewise for an
> unmodified SUA Interix 6.0/6.1 installation files
> > compiled using /usr/lib//libintl.so.8?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Eric Lindblad
> > http://www.nurmi-labs.blogspot.com
> >