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Subject: Re: installing Community 2018 gnatcoll on Debian vs -liconv
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On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 2:38:39 AM UTC-5, briot.e...@gmail.com wrote:
> lib iconv is in fact part of libc directly.
> 
> But apparently AdaCore forgot that detail (I guess in their context they find -liconv because it is part of gcc or some such). They wanted to simplify the setup by getting rid of `configure` (which is good for Windows
> users), but they made things harder for most people...
> 
> The workaround I have found is to set the variable
> 
>         export GNATCOLL_ICONV_OPT" = "-lc"

I finally got around to trying this, and it works for me.

Thanks.
> 
> Emmanuel