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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Libiconv and errno (Win32)
From: moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com (Moriyoshi Koizumi)

Hi,

"l0t3k" <cshmoove@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> im developing an extension under Win32 which links to libiconv, but i'm
> having a slight problem. i have a conversion which fails (iconv returns
> (size_t)-1), but errno is set to 0.
>    any clues as to what is happening ?
> 
> not that it matters, but the conversion is from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-16 .

That's most likely iconv.dll and your extension are linked to different 
libc dlls since errno variable is both dll specific and thread specific.  
It also fails to set a correct value to errno if your iconv.dll is 
statically linked to MS libc.

Moriyoshi