maciconv

The maciconv library implements the functions of the iconv library (iconv_open, iconv and iconv_close) by calling the native TextEncodingConverter on MacOS X.

If you are compiling sources that uses the iconv library, you can link against maciconv to automatically translate the calls to the corresponding calls to the TextEncodingConverter.

Starting with MacOS X 10.3 the iconv library is included in the operating system, so if you have MacOS X 10.3 or later, you don't need maciconv any more.

However, if you are compiling using the cross-compilation SDKs to provide software that should run on MacOS X 10.1 or 10.2, you should install the maciconv SDKs for MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2 to link against.

Downloads

Version 1.2

MacOS X version	Jaguar (10.2.x)	Panther (10.3.x)	Tiger (10.4.x)	Sources
Binary Packages		(1)	(1)
SDKs (2)		(1)	(1)

(1) the maciconv package is not needed for MacOS X 10.3 or later.

(2) The SDKs in the table above are supposed to be installed on top of the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs that comes with MacOS X 10.4 to provide iconv library support when doing cross-compilations for MacOS X 10.2 using the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs. They should not be installed on MacOS X 10.2.

Older Versions

Version 1.1

MacOS X version	Puma (10.1.x)	Jaguar (10.2.x)	Panther (10.3.x)	Sources
Binary Packages			(1)
SDKs (2)			(1)

(1) the maciconv package is not needed for MacOS X 10.3 or later.

(2) The SDKs in the table above are supposed to be installed on top of the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs that comes with MacOS X 10.3 to provide iconv library support when doing cross-compilations for MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2 using the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs. They should not be installed on MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2.

Version 1.0

MacOS X version	Puma (10.1.x)	Jaguar (10.2.x)	Panther (10.3.x)	Sources
Binary Packages			(1)
SDKs (2)			(1)

(1) the maciconv package is not needed for MacOS X 10.3 or later.

(2) The SDKs in the table above are supposed to be installed on top of the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs that comes with MacOS X 10.3 to provide iconv library support when doing cross-compilations for MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2 using the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs. They should not be installed on MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2.

Version 1.0 (first release)

The first released version was compiled on MacOS X 10.2.6. Since there were no cross-compilation SDKs available at that time only the native compilation for that version was provided as a binary package.

• binary package
• source code

Change Log

2005-05-07

• Get size_t definition from stddef.h (more portable)
• Building on MacOS X 10.4 using the cross-compilation SDKs.
• Building maciconv SDK package for the new MacOS X SDKs in MacOS X 10.4.
• Release version 1.2.

2004-10-17

• Changed the value of EILSEQ from -2323 to 92 so that maciconv uses the same value as MacOS X 10.3 and later.
• New version of the ltmain.sh.patch based on a backport of the framework support in libtool 2.0.
• Added the AUTHORS, COPYING, ChangeLog, INSTALL, NEWS and README as required by GNU automake — no more --foreign needed.
• Release version 1.1.

2003-11-30

• Building on MacOS X 10.3 using the cross-compilation SDKs to provide libraries for 10.1 and 10.2 — MacOS X 10.3 has the iconv library installed so maciconv is not needed any more.
• Building maciconv SDK packages for MacOS X 10.1 and 10.2 to be used together with the MacOS X cross-compilation SDKs.

2003-09-29

• Building Installer packages.
• Release version 1.0.

2003-06-17

• Implementation of the iconv library calls for MacOS X using the TextEncodingConverter.
• Building on MacOS X 10.2.

View the sources

• iconv.h
• iconv.c

For more information do not hesitate to contact me at mattias.ellert@tsl.uu.se

Mattias Ellert