On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, John D. Baker wrote:

I've been searching every library on the system and it seems Apple left
the wide character/string functions out, or failed to make their symbols
public (or omitted them from the library based on install-time deselection
of national language packages?)...  Thus:

> Trying to build glib2, now at v2.4.0, fails on MacOS 10.1.5 and 10.2.8
> as follows:
>
> [...]
> gcc -O2 -I/Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/.buildlink/include -Wall -o .libs/glib-genmarshal glib-genmarshal.o  ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.dylib -L/Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/.buildlink/lib /Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/.buildlink/lib/libintl.dylib -liconv -lc /Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/.buildlink/lib/libiconv.dylib
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> _wcslen
> gnumake[2]: *** [glib-genmarshal] Error 1
> gnumake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gnumake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/glib2
> [...]

as a workaround, I edited /usr/pkgsrc/devel/glib2/work/glib2-2.4.0/config.h
and changed:

#define HAVE_WCHAR_T 1

to

/* #undef HAVE_WCHAR_T */

and glib2-2.4.0 built and linked.

-- 
John D. Baker, KN5UKS                    NetBSD     Darwin/MacOS X
jdbaker(at)mylinuxisp(dot)com                 OpenBSD            FreeBSD
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