[bug-gnu-libiconv] libiconv fails to build for Windows (Visual Studio, via cygwin)

[Konstantin Ivlev]

Hi,

I am trying to build libiconv for Windows via Visual Studio, I am using official instructions from README.windows, and it fails to build with the following error:

libtool:   error: unrecognised option: '-DPACKAGE_VERSION_STRING=\"1.15\"'

I was able to fix this error by patching lib/Makefile.in and src/Makefile.in:

-OBJECTS_RES_yes = iconv.res

+OBJECTS_RES_yes =

-OBJECTS_RES_yes = libiconv.res.lo

+OBJECTS_RES_yes =

but after that, it still fails with the following error:

../libtool: line 1745: test: too many arguments

/usr/bin/install: target '../bin/charset-1.dll' is not a directory