Bug#814874: ITP: win-iconv -- iconv implementation using Windows API (for cross-building)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
* Package name : win-iconv
Version : 0.0.8
Upstream Author : Yukihiro Nakadaira <yukihiro.nakadaira@gmail.com>
* URL : https://www.github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv
* License : public domain
Programming Lang: C
Description : iconv implementation using Windows API (for cross-building)
Windows systems have native character set conversion
routines. win-iconv wraps those routines in a standard-looking iconv
interface. This package provides a means to cross-build tools for
Windows that depend on libiconv.
On native debian systems, iconv is provided directly by glibc; you
should not need this package unless you are cross-building Windows
tools.
It's healthy for debian to have a cross-building toolchain that
targets the Windows platform. We currently build things like
win32-loader (for launching the debian-installer directly from a
Microsoft Windows machine), for example. It can be handy to help free
software developers in general target Windows without needing to
install that platform or work on it directly. Win-iconv provides a
helpful shim for free software projects that depend on libiconv but
want to also target Windows.
I'm currently using win-iconv to be able to build Windows versions of
the GnuPG suite. See https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2134
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