Re: Remove APR_ICONV dependency on Windows

Mark Phippard wrote:
> I have been running into some weird ICONV problems with Subclipse on
> Windows. The problem is that we have never been able to deliver the
> ICONV *.so files with Subclipse. So either the user has installed the
> command line and set APR_ICONV_PATH and they get the functionality, or
> they have not and they do not.
>
> Anyway, I am currently building trunk with APR 1.2 and ICONV 1.1. If
> Subclipse is run on a system with environment variable set and pointed
> at 0.9.7 files, then the JVM crashes.

That would even happen if you could deliver the *.so files with
Subclipse. I reported this years ago here and on the apr mailing list, I
even sent a patch to address the issue (guess what happened). I had to
patch the apr-iconv file to change the way it locates the *.so files for
TSVN to avoid the issues.
Because: depending on the compiler version (the version of the c-runtime
to be exact) you build apr-iconv, you get crashes even if you have the
correct version of apr-iconv. For example, if your app is built with
VS2005 (which uses c-runtime v8) but some other app installed apr-iconv
(the same version you're using) built with VC6 (which uses the c-runtime
v6), you get crashes too.

The good thing is, with the patch for the utf.c file in Subversion, I
don't need apr-iconv at all anymore.

Stefan

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