Visual Studio 2013 solution for gettext-0.19.4 and libiconv-1.14

This lets you build libintl (from gettext) and libiconv with Visual Studio 2013. (These two libraries are just enough to build Minetest with gettext support.)

Notes:

• This repository contains neither any precompiled binaries nor the full source code of gettext & libiconv. See below for where to get the source code and how to build it.

• Output will be: libintl.dll, libintl.lib, libiconv.dll, libiconv.lib.

• None of the utilities (such as xgettext) will be built.

• This has only been tested with Visual Studio Express 2013.

• 32 bit and 64 bit builds are both supported.

Instructions

1. Clone this repository or extract a zipped version of it somewhere.

2. Download gettext-0.19.4.tar.gz from

   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.4.tar.gz

   and libiconv-1.14.tar.gz from

   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz

3. Extract them both into the gettext-msvc directory. You can use 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) to extract .tar.gz archives.

   The directory structure should then look like this:

   gettext-msvc |-- gettext.sln |-- gettext-0.19.4 | |-- libintl.vcxproj | |-- config.h | |-- libgnuintl.h | |-- gettext-runtime | | |-- intl | | | -- (lots of source files) | | -- (and more...) | -- (and more...) -- libiconv-1.14 |-- libiconv.vcxproj |-- config.h |-- iconv.h |-- localcharset.h |-- src | |-- iconv.c | -- (and more...) -- (and more...)

4. Open gettext.sln in Visual Studio 2013.

5. Select a configuration (Release or Debug) and a platform (Win32 or x64) and click BUILD -> Build Solution.

Once this is done, the .dll and .lib files are in one of the following directories (depending on the chosen configuration and platform):

 gettext-msvc/Release-Win32
 gettext-msvc/Release-x64
 gettext-msvc/Debug-Win32
 gettext-msvc/Debug-x64

Acknowledgements

A lot of this is based on the solution files provided at

https://github.com/winlibs/gettext
https://github.com/winlibs/libiconv