Please help testing of new packaging for windows cross compilation

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777@yahoo.com>]

Please help me test the re-packaging of libiconv and gettext for
windows usage :
 (note that these instructions apply to libiconv, but I am also
uploading the gettext as we speak, it should be done soon)

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Here are the release notes for compiling and using the libiconv for
win32 under debian 
with the cross compiler.

-2 . I only recently discovered dpkg-cross, please forgive me.
The dpkg-cross might help resolve some of these issues.

-1 . First install the mingw32 
sudo apt-get install mingw32

0. If this means anything to you, this is my ~/.dupload.conf file
package config;
$default_host = "introspector.sf.net";
$cfg{'introspector.sf.net'} = {
	fqdn => "introspector.sf.net",
	method => "scpb",
	incoming => "/home/users/m/md/mdupont/www/debian/incoming/",
	login    => "mdupont",
	dinstall_runs => 1,};
1;

1. download and install the debs from the above site 
http://introspector.sf.net/debian/incoming

then you can install them on your debian box for usage,
the install into /usr/local/win32

dpkg -i libiconv-mingw1_1.8.20020902-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i libiconv-mingw-dev_1.8.20020902-1_i386.deb


2. For the next step, if you want to compile,
export the following vars (yes I am working on the site.config)
export CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc 
export LD=i586-mingw32msvc-ld 
export AR=i586-mingw32msvc-ar
export NM=i586-mingw32msvc-nm 
export RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib 
export DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32msvc-dlltool 
export OBJDUMP=i586-mingw32msvc-objdump 
export STRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip 
export STRIPPROG=i586-mingw32msvc-strip 
export AS=i586-mingw32msvc-as 
export LC_ALL=C
export SED=sed

3. if you want to build the package 

3.0 patch the /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture
add this line at the end of the architecture list: 
	    'openbsd-i386', 'i386-openbsd',
 	    'freebsd-i386', 'i386-freebsd',
 	    'mingw32msvc-i586', 'i586-mingw32msvc',

3.1 download the source
    http://introspector.sf.net/debian/incoming
    get all the libiconv-* files

3.2 extract the source 

    sudo dpkg-source -x  libiconv-mingw_1.8.20020902-1.dsc x

3.3 goto the directory created 
    cd libiconv-mingw_1.8.20020902

3.4 build the package
    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot


Please try this out and report errors, comments, suggestions back.

thanks,

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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