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Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:31:08 +0100
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On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:15 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:

> > package IConv is
> > 
> >    -- the missing link to, e.g.
> >    -- http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
> > 
> > end IConv;
> 
> Not very helpful for a plug-in which is supposed to run under Windows.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm

With .lib, .def, .a, headers, etc.


> First a plug-in should have a small memory food print and libgnat.dll is
>  bad enough as it is.
> 
> And then libiconv is a Unix-like tool.

The library API should be easy to call in programs, given
Interfaces.C.*?