Updated: libunistring 0.9.5-1

René Berber r.berber@computer.org
Fri Apr 10 15:18:00 GMT 2015


On 4/10/2015 9:58 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:

[snip]
> It compiles fine, but I don't know how to get it to link.
> 
> $ gcc -lunistring unicode_character_name.c

The order is important on Cygwin, try:

gcc -o unicode_character_name unicode_character_name.c -lunistring

> libunistring.dll.a, the "dll" part of which seems odd to me

That's the way it works, a stub library (needed by the linker) with the
contents of the (real) dynamic library (i.e. there is a corresponding
lib<name>.dll).
-- 
René Berber


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