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\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.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 You need GNU libiconv (version 1.9 or newer) installed under c:\usr. If you haven't yet, build and install GNU libiconv (version 1.9 or newer) using the same MFLAGS. Then come back to here, to build GNU gettext. For shared library (DLL): nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD For static library: nmake -f Makefile.msvc MFLAGS=-MD If you want to build both the shared and static library, you have to unpack the gettext sources twice in different directories. Don't mix the two formats; you cannot use the libintl.h generated for the static library together with the shared library or vice versa. Install it: nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD install or nmake -f Makefile.msvc MFLAGS=-MD install - Installation: Complete and automatic installation: nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD install PREFIX=InstallBaseDirectory or nmake -f Makefile.msvc MFLAGS=-MD install PREFIX=InstallBaseDirectory By default, the compiled package is installed under c:\usr. You can specify a different directory by giving the installation base directory in a PREFIX=... option in the install step. (DON'T give the PREFIX already in the build step! This won't work.) You can also omit the PREFIX=... option, thus installing everything under c:\usr, and then move the installed package as a whole from c:\usr to a different location.