Compiling iconv with spksrc for synology NAS

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Read the disclaimer

This article describes how to compile iconv for synology devices, package it and install it.

You can get iconv sources at:
The package described in this guide will download the content from that repository.

What is iconv:
International text is mostly encoded in Unicode, sometimes a language or country dependent character encoding is still used. GNU libiconv is an encoding conversion library.

The original spksrc repository already contains a libiconv package, it only compiles the binaries :
https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/tree/master/cross/libiconv

This package fills the gap and provides the command line utilitie from the shell: iconv

This guide is the same that
https://dayandnightcoding.blogspot.com/2020/04/compiling-cpulimit-with-spksrc-for.html
You can follow the different steps there.
I'll document only the steps referring specifically to iconv.

Clone the repository and make setup

  • on the ubuntu host
  • start a terminal
  • choose a folder for the git clone root
  • git clone https://github.com/youpla/spksrc.git
  • cd spksrc/
  • make setup

Compile the iconv package for your architecture

in a terminal navigate to the libiconv folder
  • example:
    • /home/userprofile/test-git/spksrc/spk/libiconv
  • make arch-armada375

Install the package

Go to the file explorer and find the generated file.

example
/home/userprofile/test-git/spksrc/packages/libiconv_armada375-6.1_1.15-1.spk

Testing

See :
https://dayandnightcoding.blogspot.com/2020/04/testing-package-compiled-with-spksrc.html

The package libiconv has been tested for install and uninstall on my DS-115 with no noticed problem.


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