Re: Compiling Bug with gettext-0.11.2 and Cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

Nicholas Wourms writes:
> there appears to be a known
> bug when linking dll's in cygwin that appears during
> the compilation of gettext.  Basically, during the
> linking of libintl.la, one gets an error "undefined
> reference to address@hidden".  I won't go into details,
> but basically cygwin requires a "main(){}" in the
> source files somewhere otherwise it refuses to link. 
> This is covered in the faq at:
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC93

Yes, AFAIK the cygwin people are still porting libtool to Cygwin.
When they are done with it, I'll be able to use it in gettext.

For the moment, you should be able to compile gettext on this platform
by using the configure option --disable-shared --enable-static.

Bruno