Re: Problems using gettext on Windows

[Joerg Henrichs]

Hi Bruno,

thanks a lot for your very quick answer!
...
> So it appears like the problem you are seeing is with different copies of
> the C library.
OK, so I'll try to reproduce the problem with a simple "Hello World"
program (with the idea that I then add the dependencies one at a time
and see when it stops working).

Cygwin is not really an option for us as we have many people who use VS 
to test our SVN versions, who don't have cygwin installed.

> > PS: Not sure if this is related: I have also problems using fprintf with
> > gettext - it just crashes with
> >    Access violation writing location 0x00000010.
> > the first time a fprintf is done. I worked around this by adding a
> > #undef fprintf
> > after including libintl.h (which re-defines fprintf). Perhaps this might
> > be somehow related to the above issue?
>
> Indeed, this too is an indication that you are using different C library
> versions at the same time.
I can easily reproduce this issue with a simple test case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <libintl.h>
//#undef fprintf

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    fprintf(stderr, "Hello world stderr\n");
    fprintf(stdout, "Hello world stdout\n");
        return 0;
}

I only copied libintl.h, and intl.lib, and iconv.dll and intl.dll from
the gettext/libiconv packages, nothing else (for a normal console 
application). Compiled as 'release' (i.e. /MD - multithreaded DLL) - and 
it immediately crashes in the first fprintf statement. All other setting 
were unchanged from the default (except using precompiled headers). Am I 
missing something obvious?

Cheers,
   Joerg