From: Martin Elzen <martinelzen@...>
Date: 2004-05-03T23:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I add the iconv extension to Ruby?

"Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@avaya.com> wrote:
>IIUC, the .so files are just the connection ruby needs to the actual
>iconv.dll - you still need that.
>
>You should download and compile iconv and readline from GNU.org.

Hi Assaph,

After downloading and compiling the GNU libiconv stuff (which resulted in 
giving me the relevant iconv.dll), retrieving a version of iconv.so from the 
Ruby 1.8.1-20040402-mswin32.tar.gz file, and plonking those files in the 
correct sub-directories of the directory where I installed Ruby 1.8.1 in the 
first place, everything works as it should.  Thank you very much for your 
advice.

I had just started using Yoshida Masato's Uconv routines (which worked 
perfectly well, thank you as well Yoshida Masato), but I prefer to use 
software that has been declared as 'standard' by the Ruby community, and am 
glad I can do so from now on.

Martin

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