Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] SDL build error

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 07/06/13 12:18, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 07/06/2013, at 3:49 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, shot in the dark: do a clean git clone of MXE into a directory that doesn't 
> > contain non-ASCII characters.  Like "/home/barzoque/mxe". Maybe that's the 
> > issue.
>
> That's certainly the issue, I created a directory with "Документы" in it and get the same 
> error. I've narrowed it down to "pkg-config" returning gibberish, but don't know how to 
> fix it.
>
> Any ideas?

pkg-config just doesn't seem to deal with multi-byte characters at all. 
 In parce.c it assumes one byte equals one character.  The problem is 
general; has nothing to do with MXE.  You can try installing some native 
Linux package in ~/home/Документы and export PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
accordingly, and you'll get gibberish.

So, long story short: there's no way to fix the problem from the MXE side.

One way for the distro where MXE run in to fix this, is to switch to 
pkgconf instead.  I've tested it, and UTF-8 pathnames, including 
"Документы" work just fine.  As a bonus, pkgconf has no dependencies; 
it's pure C.  Gentoo considered switching, but it's not 100% compatible 
yet (though pretty close):

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/82470