Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net>
* Package name : win-iconv Version : 0.0.8 Upstream Author : Yukihiro Nakadaira <yukihiro.nakada...@gmail.com> * URL : https://www.github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv * License : public domain Programming Lang: C Description : iconv implementation using Windows API (for cross-building) Windows systems have native character set conversion routines. win-iconv wraps those routines in a standard-looking iconv interface. This package provides a means to cross-build tools for Windows that depend on libiconv. On native debian systems, iconv is provided directly by glibc; you should not need this package unless you are cross-building Windows tools. It's healthy for debian to have a cross-building toolchain that targets the Windows platform. We currently build things like win32-loader (for launching the debian-installer directly from a Microsoft Windows machine), for example. It can be handy to help free software developers in general target Windows without needing to install that platform or work on it directly. Win-iconv provides a helpful shim for free software projects that depend on libiconv but want to also target Windows. I'm currently using win-iconv to be able to build Windows versions of the GnuPG suite. See https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2134