RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 18 13:21:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:25:59PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> FYI, the new gettext package is NOT imminent. There are some variables
> exported from cyggettext*.dll to the msg*.exe programs that are not
> auto-importable. (direct access to elements in an array of structs).
>
> So, I need to muck with the code some -- and add accessor functions or
> something. So this will take a while. Fortunately, since these are
> "private" DLLs, I'm not changing the "external API" outside of the
> gettext package itself.
If only these two tools are using cyggettext*.dll and the other one,
why not linking statically against them? I don't see a reason to
have dlls hanging around for that purpose.
Corinna
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