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| -rw-r--r-- | DEPENDENCIES | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES index 797bdb4c..066cb230 100644 --- a/DEPENDENCIES +++ b/DEPENDENCIES @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The following packages should be installed before GNU libunistring is installed (runtime dependencies that are also build dependencies): * GNU libiconv - + Not needed on systems with glibc, on macOS, and NetBSD. + + Not needed on systems with glibc and on NetBSD. But highly recommended on all other systems. Needed for character set conversion of strings from/to Unicode. + Homepage: @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ installed (runtime dependencies that are also build dependencies): - Other: https://repology.org/project/libiconv/versions + If it is installed in a nonstandard directory, pass the option --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR to 'configure'. + + On mingw, a slim alternative is the 'win-iconv' package version 0.0.8 + from https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv . The following packages should be installed when GNU libunistring is installed |