This is a port of GNU IDN library 1.38 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  This package contains the GNU implementation of the IDN library, the fully
  documented implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA 2003 specifications.
  The library's purpose is to encode and decode internationalized domain name
  strings.



1.:     DJGPP specific changes.
        =======================

      - The source archive that has been used to create this port can be
        downloaded as:
          ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.38.tar.gz
      - To build and use this port, a port of the iconv library is required.
        It is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as:
          ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv116b.zip
        This is not optional.  The library and the binary do some recoding
        of strings between some imput character set and an output character
        set.  If these products have not been compiled with iconv then only
        ASCII input will be possible.  The input character set to be used
        must be specified by setting CHARSET environment variable.  If the
        variable is not set then again ASCII is assumed and only the
        characters less than 128 will be translated.  For all others, the
        applications will abort with an corresponding error message.
        For most western/latin european countries the correct value of
        CHARSET will be CP850.  For other regions, the used DOS code page
        must be specified as used character set.

      - This port has been configured to be build in the "_build" directory.
      - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3 and Win98SE.
        There is absolute no guarantee that this may be possible with any other
        DOS-like OS.  Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible
        to configure and compile without LFN support.
      - Some file names of the man pages are not SFN clean.  I have no intention
        to fix this.
      - This version of the port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu2351b.
      - This port provides no NLS support for the version compiled with djdev205.
        It has been configured with NLS support disabled by passing the no-nls
        flag as argument to config.bat.  If you prefer NLS support you will have
        to reconfigure the sources omitting the no-nls flag when calling config.bat.

        As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files,
        etc.) are stored in the djgpp directory.

        For further information about GNU IDN library please read the info docs and NEWS file.


2.:     Installing the binary package.
        ==============================

2.1.:   Copy the binary distribution into the top DJGPP installation directory
        and unzip it running *ONE* of the following commands:
          unzip32 lidn138b.zip      or
          djtarx lidn138b.zip       or
          pkunzip -d lidn138b.zip

2.2.:   If there is no entry for the sed info docs in your dir file, located
        info directory, create one running the command:
          install-info --info-dir=/dev/env/DJDIR/info /dev/env/DJDIR/info/libidn.info


3.:     Building the binaries from sources.
        ===================================

3.1.:   Create a temporary directory and copy the source package into the
        directory.  If you download the source distribution from one of the
        DJGPP sites, just unzip it preserving the directory structure
        running *ONE* of the following commands:
          unzip32 lidn138s.zip      or
          djtarx lidn138s.zip       or
          pkunzip -d lidn138s.zip

3.2.:   To build the binaries you will need the following binary packages:
          djdev205.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version)
          bsh4117br3.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version)
          gccNNNb.zip, bnuNNNb.zip, makNNNb.zip, filNNNb.zip, shlNNNb.zip,
          txtNNNb.zip, txiNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip, sedNNNb.zip, mktmpNNb.zip
          and difNNNb.zip.

        If you want to configure and compile this packages with NLS support
        enabled you must install licvNNNb.zip, lunsNNNb.zip and gtxNNNNb.zip.

        If you want to run the check you will need also:
          difNNNb.zip and mktmpNNNb.zip

        NNN represents the latest version number of the binary packages.  All
        this packages can be found in the /v2gnu directory of any
        ftp.delorie.com mirror.
        You will need bsh4117br3.zip or later and *NOT* a prior version or
        the build will fail.  The same applies to djdev205.zip.

3.3.:   The package has been configured to be build in a separate build directory
        under the top srcdir (aka libidn-1.38).  To build the binaries cd
        into "_build" directory.  If for some reason you want to reconfigure the
        package cd into the build directory and run the following commands:
          del config.cache
          make clean
          ..\djgpp\config ./..

        Please note that you *MUST* delete the config.cache file in the _build
        directory or you will not really reconfigure the sources because the
        configuration informations will be read from the cache file instead
        of being newly computed.

        config.bat, among other things, will start the configure script passing
        to it a couple of arguments.  You can control these argument passing the
        following command line arguments to config.bat:
          nls or no-nls, default nls.  NLS support enabled.
          cache or no-cache, default cache.  Cache in build directory.
          dep or no-dep, default no-dep.  No dependency tracking.
          silent or no-silent, default silent.  Controls the verbosity of the
                                                build process.
        All other configure specific options are not set by config.bat so their
        values are left as they are.  If no arguments are passed to config.bat
        then the default values are used.


        To build the programs in a directory other than where the sources are,
        you must add the parameter that specifies the source directory,
        e.g:
          x:\src\gnu\libidn-1.38\djgpp\config x:/src/gnu/libidn-1.38

        Lets assume you want to build the binaries in a directory placed on a
        different drive (z:\build in this case) from where the sources are,
        then you will run the following commands:
          z:
          md \build
          cd \build
          x:\src\gnu\libidn-1.38\djgpp\config x:/src/gnu/libidn-1.38

        The order of the options and the srcdir option does not matter.  You
        *MUST* use forward slashes to specify the source directory.

        The batch file will set same environment variables, make MSDOS specific
        modifications to the Makefile.in's and supply all other needed options
        to the configure script.

3.4.:   To compile the package run from the directory where you have configured
        the sources the command:
          make

3.5.:   Now you can run the tests if you like. From the directory where you have
        configured the sources run the command:
          make check

        All checks is the "fuzz" directory will be skiped.  All checks in the
        "test" directory will pass.

3.6.:   To install the binary, info docs and man pages run the following command
        from the directory where you have configured the sources:
          make install

        This will install the products into your DJGPP installation tree given
        by the default prefix "/dev/env/DJDIR".  If you prefer to install them
        into some other directory you will have to set prefix to the appropriate
        value:
          make install prefix=z:/some/other/place



        Send GNU IDN library specific bug reports to <bug-libidn@gnu.org>.
        Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
        to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp@delorie.com>.


Enjoy.

          Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan.guerrero@gmx.de>
