Re: building gettext on mingw32+msys

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Merder Kim wrote:
> I have trouble in compilling gnu gettext sources on my msys+mingw.
> gettext sources 0.17
> gcc 4.5.0
> libiconv 1.13.1
> glib 2.24.20 (from gtk.org downloads)
> configuration options: --disable-nls --with-included-gettext
> 
> On the stage of linking libgettextlib.la I've got error:
> Cannot export rpl_optarg: symbol not defined
> Cannot export rpl_optind: symbol not defined
> ../woe32dll/.libs/gettextlib-exports.o:gettextlib-exports.c:(.data+0x24): 
> undefined 
> reference to `rpl_optarg'
> ../woe32dll/.libs/gettextlib-exports.o:gettextlib-exports.c:(.data+0x28): 
> undefined 
> reference to `rpl_optind'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [libgettextlib.la] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> I googled almost the same problem: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467398, but it's not my 
> system... Can I do something?

That report on bugzilla.redhat.com contains an analysis of the problem.
They found out that the problem is triggered by an upgrade from mingw runtime
3.14 to 3.15.1, and that the workaround is to comment out two variables from
gettext's explicit export list.

Bruno