> David Collin wrote: > > I've had some troubles compiling gtmess, a program available at >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtmess/gtmess-0.94.tar.gz?download. > Assuming it would compile "out of the box", I uncompressed it and > immediately jumped into the newly created directory to do a ./configure. > All seemed to go well until I got the following error: "configure:5547: error: > cannot find iconv() function". I gave the configure file a quick look to see > what the script was actually doing at that point. But as I read through it, >I found out that, to make this configure check, it called upon another > program/script to make this check, and this goes beyond my > cygwin/programming knowledge (note that this is my own interpretation, > it may or may not be right). I also compiled the iconv lib found at > http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ and using this one instead, but > without any success. It may also just be that the program is not compatible > with cygwin at all, who knows? Not me for sure! Anyway, if anyone experienced > could look into that, I would really appreciate it. Attached to this email is > the > config.log file. I also tried to attach the configure script but apparently, > the > cygwin mailing list program didn't like that. This was done on a Vista x64 > ultimate machine with the lastest stable release of Cygwin, 1.5.25-15. Thanks > in advance, >> > There's a bunch of docs and FAQs at the bottom of your e-mail, which you > appear to have ignored. If you are using the cygwin 32-bit compiler, did > you open up the cygwin setup menu, and check that your libiconv package is > up to date? If that doesn't solve it, there's advice in those FAQs about > how to ask for help. > If you're actually compiling using some 64-bit compiler, or even a > non-cygwin 32-bit compiler, this is off topic.
Thanks for the reply, None of these mentionned FAQs and docs were ignored, but an error or 2 may happen, especially for new mailing list users. The compiler I am using here shouldn't really matter for now as I only tried to run a configure script that generated an error in no way linked to a compiler. But to answer your question, I am using the cygwin packaged version of gcc. As for my libiconv package, it was already up to date when I first tried to run the configure script. Thanks, David _________________________________________________________________ Try Chicktionary, a game that tests how many words you can form from the letters given. Find this and more puzzles at Live Search Games! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
