Re: Gettext portability issues.

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

> The problem here is that autotools detect the host
> version of gettext and generate the output .mo files using the linux binaries.

This is not a problem: The .mo files produced on different platforms from
the same .po file are equivalent: they can be used on any platform. The
.mo files produced on different little-endian platforms (such as Woe32
and Linux/x86) are even the same.

> Then I realized that internationalization is not working, ... So I
> tried to run the generated gettext with wine and didn't worked either.

Please take a look at the FAQ:
  http://www.haible.de/bruno/gettext-FAQ.html

> I need to compile gettext. Since gettext target is Win32 ...

Btw, for building on mingw (as opposed to Cygwin), you need this patch:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-12/msg00023.html

Bruno