From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 11:32:03 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc: For MSVC, recommend to avoid the preinstalled libunistring.
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doc: For MSVC, recommend to avoid the preinstalled libunistring.

This fixes an "initializer is not a constant" error upon use of uninorm_nfc.
Reported by Kirill Makurin <maiddaisuki@outlook.com> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2025-05/msg00076.html>.

* INSTALL.windows: For MSVC, recommend --with-included-libunistring.
---

diff --git a/INSTALL.windows b/INSTALL.windows
index 3aa1c004a..6265527a7 100644
--- a/INSTALL.windows
+++ b/INSTALL.windows
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
       win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8    # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
 
       ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc32 \
+            --with-included-libunistring \
             CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
             CFLAGS="-MD" \
             CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
       win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8    # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
 
       ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc64 \
+            --with-included-libunistring \
             CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
             CFLAGS="-MD" \
             CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \