On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 19:45 +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On 11.07.2020 04:03, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I suggest an update to libiconv 1.16, since the current Cygwin > > packages of libiconv 1.14 are old (updated 5 years ago). > > > > Cygport files are forked > > to https://github.com/cygwin-lem/libiconv-cygport/tree/w_1.16 > > from http://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/libiconv . > > > > > > New test package files are placed here: > > https://cygwin-lem.github.io/libiconv-cygport/index.html . > > > > Please, check them: > > Looks good to me > > except the build of static import libraries > > usr/lib/libcharset.a > usr/lib/libiconv.a > > I will stick to only: > usr/lib/libcharset.dll.a > usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a
Static libiconv is used when building Cygwin dumper.exe (as a dependency of libbfd.a, which is static only). Therefore it should be present. Note that my .cygport has an explicit --enable-static, which should have indicated that this was deliberate. -- Yaakov
