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Halo, I tried to install libiconv with this tutorial http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/mingw_how_to.html#libiconv. I installed MinGW from heise.de, containing MSYS. In MSYS I made the steps ./configure and make. Step make install finishes with an error: 

libtool:install: /bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/../bin/libiconv-2.dll /usr/local/lib/../bin/libiconv-2.dll    
/bin/install: cannot stat .libs/../bin/libiconv-2.dll: No such file or directory
make install error
Leaving directory c/libiconv-1.14/lib

To solve this problem, I copied libiconv-2.dll from C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin to C:\libiconv-1.14\bin. It was proposed in https://linuxacademy.com/blog/linux/troubleshooting-configure-make-and-make-install-tutorial/ in section make install problems.

The package you just compiled doesn’t have the install target. In this case you will have to copy the compiled binaries to a bin directory yourself.

As I compiled with MSYS, I had the binaries under C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin.

The path to libiconv-2.dll - .libs/../bin/libiconv-2.dll - is right, if current directory is c/libiconv-1.14/lib.

Does anyone know why libiconv-2.dll can't be found? Everything seems to be ok.

update: I don't try to install libiconv anymore!!!

Alex
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  • Try running `./configure --prefix=/mingw` instead of just `./configure` – user3419537 Sep 15 '15 at 14:29
  • @user3419537 I runned `make clean`, `./configure --prefix=/mingw` and `make`. Now `make` gives the error `.libs/relocatable.o: In function find_shared_library_fullname: /c/libiconv-1.14/libcharset/lib/./relocatable.c:362: undefined reference to _getline` – Alex Sep 16 '15 at 08:37
  • This answer [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13112784/undefined-reference-to-getline-in-c) says that, `#define _GNU_SOURCE` shall be done, if there are problems with getline. I looked in relocatable.c and it contains `#ifndef _GNU_SOURCE # define _GNU_SOURCE 1 #endif`. – Alex Sep 16 '15 at 08:44
  • It seems that this is a new error. `./configure, make` produces the same "undefined reference to _getline" error. – Alex Sep 16 '15 at 09:01
  • This could be deserving of an answer, __if__ you [edit] the question to improve it. At the very least, you need to specify the __complete and exact__ sequence commands you've executed, to get to the error message you show. Without that, I can't offer a worthwhile answer; with it, I surely could. – Keith Marshall Sep 19 '15 at 14:52
  • I guess the problem with relying on arbitrary internet sources is that you just cannot have any confidence in their accuracy. WRT libiconv and MSYS, your http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/mingw_how_to.html#libiconv reference is one of the __worst__ I've ever seen; it is just __completely wrong__, in every step of the procedure. – Keith Marshall Sep 19 '15 at 14:57
  • Yet another arbitrary internet source: your https://linuxacademy.com/blog/linux/troubleshooting-configure-make-and-make-install-tutorial/ reference is actually not bad, but the paragraph you quote from it is __completely irrelevant__ in this case; `libiconv` __does__ have an `install` target, (and an `install-strip` target), specified in its generated makefiles. – Keith Marshall Sep 19 '15 at 15:03

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