[OE-core] [PATCH] uninative-tarball: glibc-gconv-{utf-16, cp1252} for binutils windres

[Nathan Rossi]

On 24 March 2017 at 02:14, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
> The windres binutils binary which is used for Windows resource files
> requires utf-16 and cp1252 encoding support in order to correctly
> generate resource files with strings. As such when using uninative to
> build mingw resources for a nativesdk target the windres binary is
> executed on the native host, thus using the uninative libc and gconv
> modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com>
> ---

Forgot to mention file size impact, which is less than 40K (for x86_64).

20K     ./x86_64-linux/usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
16K     ./x86_64-linux/usr/lib/gconv/CP1252.so

Regards,
Nathan

>  meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
> index bbde0d2150..f3fc1ebe62 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/uninative-tarball.bb
> @@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK = ""
>
>  # ibm850 - mcopy from mtools
>  # iso8859-1 - guile
> +# utf-16, cp1252 - binutils-windres
>  TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK = "\
>      nativesdk-glibc \
>      nativesdk-glibc-gconv-ibm850 \
>      nativesdk-glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \
> +    nativesdk-glibc-gconv-utf-16 \
> +    nativesdk-glibc-gconv-cp1252 \
>      nativesdk-patchelf \
>      "
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>