Heads-Up: Pending update of the system compiler to gcc-13

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-05-24 14:56, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2025-05-24 12:04, Glenn Strauss via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 07:09:48PM +0200, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Gcc version 13.4 is expected to get released in about four to six weeks
>>> and that will be the trigger for Cygwin to update from gcc-12 soon
>>> after.  As gcc-13 has been available as a test version based on the
>>> weekly snapshots on Cygwin continually since September 2023 I plan to
>>> only have a brief gap between the test release and switching it to
>>> current.
>>>
>>> As things stand I will include the locale patches from Takashi Yano for
>>> libstdc++, which in their current form will make libiconv-devel a new
>>> requirement for the gcc-core package as it's going to be part of the
>>> compiler driver specification.  While I'd like to avoid that and limit
>>> this requirement to g++ / libstadc++, it's light enough to not hold up
>>> the update over this issue (after all on other systems that's part of
>>> the system libc anyway).  But if anyboday has a suggestion on how to
>>> resolve this, please come forward.
> 
>> Back in Feb 2024, I reported that gcc package appears to have added
>> a dependency on libintl-devel [1].  In that thread, Brian noted the
>> dependency was libintl8 and libiconv2 [2] (instead of libintl-devel).
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255517.html
>> [2] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255528.html
> 
> It seems gcc/ld needs lib{iconv,intl}-devel to find lib{iconv2,intl8}.
> Does that make sense?

$ grep -ao 'cygi.*-[28]\.dll' /lib/lib{iconv,intl}.dll.a
/lib/libiconv.dll.a:cygiconv-2.dll
/lib/libintl.dll.a:cygintl-8.dll

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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