Re: Is windows platform (Win 2000/Win XP/Win 2003 Server) supported by GNU Libidn?

[Simon Josefsson]

"Pieush Nautiyal" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
> Would that mean that for Libiconv the tested compilers are only Cygwin
> and Mingw32 for the Windows platform?

Hi again.  No, I don't know that.  I would expect Libiconv to work on
Windows using cygwin or mingw32 with little or no changes.  It may be
the case that it has also been ported to VC, but I don't know that.

Regards,
Simon

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:46 PM
> To: Pieush Nautiyal
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Is windows platform (Win 2000/Win XP/Win 2003 Server)
> supported by GNU Libidn?
>
> "Pieush Nautiyal" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> 1.   Is windows platform (Win 2000/Win XP/Win 2003 Server) supported
>> by GNU Libidn? If yes, what are the steps for including Libidn library
>> in a VC 6.0 project?
>
> Hi!  Thanks for your interest in libidn.  Windows is supported by GNU
> Libidn, tested compilers are Cygwin and Mingw32.  There are no
> instructions on how to include it in a VC project, but since this is
> ANSI C89 source code, incorporating it should not be difficult.  If
> you come up with something, please consider to contribute it back to
> us so that others can benefit from your work.
>
>> 2.   I want to convert Mac Roman characters to Unicode characters for
>> a VC 6.0 application. Can this be done using GNU Libidn?
>
> LibIDN uses Libiconv to do charset conversion.  While you can use
> LibIDN for this, you could just as well use Libiconv directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon