On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:48:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:43:49PM -0800, neal somos wrote:
>>If I make the following change to wv2's configure, I can then make the package
>>
>>25826c25826
>>< ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext
>$LIBS >&5'
>>---
>>> ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LDFLAGS
>$LIBS >&5'
>>
>>Basically ...
>> gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 -liconv conftest.c
>>produces quite different results from
>> gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 conftest.c -liconv
>>which are the compile lines from the test being run by configure.
>>
>>How the original test works elsewhere but fails on cygwin
>>is beyond me at this time.
>
>It's probably expecting that it can do something put
like
>
>extern int libiconv_close();
>
>in a source file and then just link it. That doesn't necessarily work
>on Windows. You may have to mark the declaration with declspec(dllimport);.
>
>The function should be auto-imported automatically but maybe there is
>a warning showing up or something which is confusing autoconf.
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