mbstate_t in VS2015

[gnieboer]

Thanks for doing this!

Works in VS2015, but only after:

mbstate_t is undefined (config.h line 383)
HAVE_MBSTATE_T is defined (config.h line 177)

Cheers.

[ITISAGLN]

I am having trouble building in VS2015. I don't know what previous post means.
This is my error:
1>c:\program files (x86)\windows kits\10\include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt\corecrt.h(475): error C2628: '_Mbstatet' followed by 'int' is illegal (did you forget a ';'?)

[gnieboer]

@ITISAGLN,

That means in order to build in MSVC 2015, you need to change the file config.h so that the variables mentioned above are defined and undefined appropriately.

[petermorck]

Thanks. Helped me get past the same build error in VS 2015.

Just to clarify, you need to comment out
#define mbstate_t int

and remove the comments around
/* #undef HAVE_MBSTATE_T */

So HAVE_MBSTATE_T should be undefined since that's what #undef does, not define.

Anybody know why this change isn't merged? It was reported a year ago. Compatibility with older VS?

[ITISAGLN]

Thanks for the update as I have not been able to figure this out.
...For the entire project, I did a Ctl-F for "#define mbstate_t int" and "/* #undef HAVE_MBSTATE_T */" and neither was found. Where are these? Not in config.h, right?

[petermorck]

It's in
https://github.com/kahrl/gettext-msvc/blob/master/libiconv-1.14/config.h

[ITISAGLN]

Ah. I was in the gettext project. Thanks alot.
Build: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped

[stormsson]

Thank you

[quasilyte]

This saved a good amount of my time. Thanks.
Making steps that petermorck described is still required.

Maybe we should add a note inside README?

[ghost]

when I build finished in vs2015,I using a sample code test it ,but failed ,see follow:
//code:
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "libgnuintl.h"
//#include "libintl.h"
`
int main(void)
{
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

bindtextdomain("hello", "locale");
textdomain("hello");
printf(gettext("Hello, world!\n"));
system("pause");
exit(0);

}
`
when I compile it,vs2015 ,encounter just an error:
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol _libintl_setlocale test_gettext_001

//but I using a old head file "#include "libintl.h",(come from:http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm),it worked fine.

//I think the new version has better head files,how to solve it?