This is a port of GNU libiconv 1.16 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  LIBICONV is a character set conversion library and provides
  an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't
  have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
  This library provides the requiered functionality to recode on-the-fly
  from UNIX charsets to MSDOS codepages. The mapping from language codes
  to DOS codepages is contained in the charset.alias file located in the
  /dev/env/DJDIR/lib subdir. Please inspect this file carefully and tell
  me if the selected DOS codepage is correct for your language.



1.:     DJGPP specific changes.
        =======================

        There are no user visible DJGPP specific changes to the sources.
        The official GNU distribution has build-in DJGPP to some degree
        but this support has ceased, so that new changes must be ported
        to DJGPP.  Especially for the posix specific library relocation
        support that has been completely disabled by me because it makes
        no sense on DOS/DJGPP.

        It is important to understand that this port does not have nor will
        ever provide code to identify SFN aliases that have numeric tails.
        IOW, it is the user's responsability to disable numeric tail generation
        on all OS where this is possible before installing packages that have
        NLS support or the program compiled with this library will fail when
        LFN support has been disabled.  E.g.: the port will be able to find a
        file like charset.alias if LFN support is enabled and it will be able
        to find charset.ali if LFN support is disabled but it will never be
        able to find charset~1.ali.  On WIN95/98 systems and plain DOS with
        DOSLFN, the user _must_ always turn off the generation of numeric tails
        for 8.3 aliases the OS creats for long file names _before_ package
        installation or the package will not work in a dual DOS/WIN9X (SFN/LFN)
        environment (it will work on Win[9X|2K|XP] where the long file name
        (charset.alias) is available but it will not work on plain DOS where an
        alias like charset~1.ali will be visible instead of the 8.3 truncated
        short file name, this is charset.ali).

        Due to various new issues DXE3 modules will not be provided.

        This version of the port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu232b.

        As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, README files,
        etc.) are stored in the djgpp directory.

        For further information about GNU libiconv please read the info docs and NEWS file.


2.:     Installing the binary package.
        ==============================

2.1.:   Copy the binary distribution into the top DJGPP installation directory,
        just unzip it preserving the directory structure running *ONE* of the
        following commands:
          unzip32 licv116b.zip      or
          djtarx licv116b.zip       or
          pkunzip -d licv116b.zip

2.2.:   If there is no entry for the libiconv info docs in your dir file, create
        one running the command:
          install-info --info-dir=/dev/env/DJDIR/info /dev/env/DJDIR/info/iconv.info


3.:     Building the binaries from sources.
        ===================================

3.1.:   Create a temporary directory and copy the source package into the
        directory.  If you download the source distribution from one of the
        DJGPP sites, just unzip it preserving the directory structure
        running *ONE* of the following commands:
          unzip32 licv116s.zip      or
          djtarx licv116s.zip       or
          pkunzip -d licv116s.zip

3.2.:   To build the binaries you will need the following binary packages:
          djdev205.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version)
          bsh205bbr3.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version)
          gccNNNb.zip, gppNNN.zip, bnuNNNb.zip, makNNNb.zip, filNNNb.zip,
          shlNNNb.zip, txtNNNb.zip, txiNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip, sedNNNb.zip,
          pcreNNNb.zip, mktmpNNb.zip and gwkNNNb.zip.

        To build with NLS support enabled you will also need to install:
          gtxtNNNb.zip

        If you want to run the check you will need also:
          difNNNb.zip and mktmpNNNb.zip

        All this packages can be found in the /v2gnu directory of any
        ftp.delorie.com mirror.  NNN stands for the newest port versions
        available when this port was build but older may do the work as well
        but I have not tested this.

3.3.:   The package has been configured to be build in a separate build directory
        under the top srcdir (aka licv-1.16).  To build the binaries cd
        into /_build directory.  If for some reason you want to reconfigure the
        package cd into the build directory and run the following commands:
          del config.cache
          make clean
          ..\djgpp\config ./..

        Please note that you *MUST* delete the config.cache file in the _build
        directory or you will not really reconfigure the sources because the
        configuration informations will be read from the cache file instead
        of being newly computed.

        config.bat, among other things, will start the configure script passing
        to it a couple of arguments.  You can control these argument passing the
        following command line arguments to config.bat:
          nls or no-nls, default nls.  NLS support enabled.
          cache or no-cache, default cache.  Cache in build directory.
          dep or no-dep, default no-dep.  No dependency tracking.
          silent or no-silent, default silent.  Controls the verbosity of the
                                                build process.
        All other configure specific options are not set by config.bat so their
        values are left as they are.  If no arguments are passed to config.bat
        then the default values are used.


        To build the programs in a directory other than where the sources are,
        you must add the parameter that specifies the source directory,
        e.g:
          x:\src\gnu\licv-1.16\djgpp\config x:/src/gnu/licv-1.16

        Lets assume you want to build the binaries in a directory placed on a
        different drive (z:\build in this case) from where the sources are,
        then you will run the following commands:
          z:
          md \build
          cd \build
          x:\src\gnu\licv-1.16\djgpp\config x:/src/gnu/licv-1.16

        The order of the options and the srcdir option does not matter.  You
        *MUST* use forward slashes to specify the source directory.

        The batch file will set same environment variables, make MSDOS specific
        modifications to the Makefile.in's and supply all other needed options
        to the configure script.

3.4.:   To compile the package run from the directory where you have configured
        the sources the command:
          make
        This will produce static version of the libraries.  If you prefer the
        DXE3 module version of the libraries use the command:
          make MAKE_DXE3

3.5.:   Now you can run the tests if you like.  Start the command:
          make check

        If the package has been compiled to produce DXE3 modules, the test suite
        must be started using the command
          make check MAKE_DXE3

        If MAKE_DXE3 is omitted, the makefile will not set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
        environment variable and the compiled test programs will not be able to
        find and load the DXE3 modules.

3.6.:   To install the binaries and info docs run the following command from
        the directory where you have configured the sources:
          make install

        This will install the products into your DJGPP installation tree given
        by the default prefix "/dev/env/DJDIR".  If you prefer to install them
        into some other directory you will have to set prefix to the appropriate
        value:
          make install prefix=z:/some/other/place



        Send GNU libiconv specific bug reports to <bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>.
        Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
        to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp@delorie.com>.


Enjoy.

          Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan.guerrero@gmx.de>
