Gavin Smith wrote: > Also, if I delete build-aux/ar-lib nothing appears to regenerate it.
Yes, I made the same experience. 'ar-lib' needs to be imported explicitly. > Perhaps it is not needed. It is needed for building with the MSVC compiler. Cf. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.windows Bruno
