[MPlayer-users] mingw -Liconv missing?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:27:09PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:20:44AM -0600, Roger Pack wrote:
> > Hello all.
> > Ran into this a few times, thought I'd mention it:
> > in mingw, running this:
> > 
> > $  ./configure  --yasm='' --enable-iconv --enable-freetype
> > --enable-static --enable-debug && make
> > 
> > results in this error message at link time:
> > c:\dev\ruby\downloads\mplayer/mp_msg.c:69: undefined reference to `libiconv'
> > 
> > One can work around it by adding -liconv to EXTRALIBS in config.mak,
> > but thought I'd point it out.
> 
> If -liconv is not there that is because the configure check found out it
> is not needed.
> 
> > c:\dev\ruby\downloads\mplayer/mp_msg.c:69: undefined reference to `libiconv'
> > c:\dev\ruby\downloads\mplayer/mp_msg.c:62: undefined reference to
> > `libiconv_open'
> 
> There is no libiconv or libiconv_open in that file, only iconv and
> iconv_open.
> Something on your systems does some horrible hacks, and for some reason
> only for the actual build and not when configure compiles the test
> program.

Correction: Configure doesn't figure it out because you used
--enable-iconv
As configure tells quite clearly, using --enable means that you know
what you are doing and you will provide all options necessary.
You can't complain about having to provide -liconv manually when
that's exactly what you are telling configure you want to do.