How to build gnu `libiconv` on & for windows?

Question

I want to build a static library (*.LIB file) GNU libiconv on windows to be used with other libraries in Visual C++. Other libraries I\'m using are built with \"MultiThreade

Answer 1

compile them using MinGW using Msys for the environment if needed. MinGW's .a files are apparently, according to the mailing list, the same format as .lib files (just do a rename). You might want to check first to see if the iconv static library is included already in the MinGW download / filesystem.

Edit: it's in msys (C:\msys\1.0\lib), along with:

• libiconv.a
• libiconv.dll.a
• libiconv.la

and additionally

• libiconv-2.dll (in C:\msys\1.0\local\bin)

Edit: is it in here, the libiconv you need? these versions seem to have MSVC makefiles :) http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/libiconv/