Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME): - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0. - Cannot build in a separate directory. - Build instructions: Make sure that the MSVC4.0 or MSVC5.0 or MSVC6.0 or MSVC7.0 utilities ("cl" etc.) are found in PATH. In a typical MSVC6.0 installation, this can be achieved by running C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\vcvars32.bat In a typical MSVC7.0 installation, it can be achieved by running C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VC7\bin\vcvars32.bat Decide which compilation model you will use: MFLAGS=-ML (the default) Single-threaded, statically linked - libc.lib MFLAGS=-MT Multi-threaded, statically linked - libcmt.lib MFLAGS=-MD Multi-threaded, dynamically linked - msvcrt.lib For shared library (DLL): nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD For static library: nmake -f Makefile.msvc If you want to build both the shared and static library, you have to unpack the libiconv sources twice in different directories. Don't mix the two formats; you cannot use the libcharset.h and localcharset.h generated for the static library together with the shared library or vice versa. - Installation: Manual minimal installation: Copy include/libcharset.h and include/localcharset.h to your header file repository. Copy lib/charset.lib to your library repository. If you built for shared library, also copy lib/charset.dll into one of the directories listed in your PATH, or into the directory containing the executable which shall make use of libcharset. Complete and automatic installation: nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD install prefix=InstallBaseDirectory or nmake -f Makefile.msvc install prefix=InstallBaseDirectory