Fix for indy for Android (and all *nix systems) to remove libiconv
dependancy
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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zgabrovski · 2021-01-29 18:05

I did a fix for indy 10 sources, to remove the dependancy from iconv
library for all *nix systems.
I have a problems in my application with Indy, libiconv.so and Android
10.
It was dirty crashing when I try to send some data to the server. I
found the problem comes some how from the iteration between Indy 10
library and libiconv.so.
First of all it was very hard to found a working copy of libiconv.so
for android. Thanks for Don Alfredo, he sent me a copy.
But after that my application crash when sent data on Android 10. On 8
&9 it works. backtrace shows me that the crash is somewhere in
libiconv.so.
I recomiped it from the scratch with a .bat file provided from Don
Alfredo (in fpcupdevuxe->various build scripts folder), bu result is
similar.

I got angry and got rid of the dependencies on the iconv library and
managed to replace it with LConvEncoding which comes with fpc. A while
ago I launched the problematic application and now it works like the
sun.
The attached link has a link to download the two files I modified to
make this work.

https://www.atozed.com/forums/thread-2269-post-7707.html#pid7707

I will attach the modified files here too.
Indy version 10, downloaded through OPM.

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MarkMLl · 2021-01-31 20:23

A little bit of immoderate rage works wonders at times- as does
eliminating dependencies if they're genuinely not needed :-)

MarkMLl

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Remy Lebeau · 2021-02-02 20:42

I've made tweaks to zgabrovski's proposed changes.  I have attached
them here.  These have NOT been merged into Indy's main code yet.

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Remy Lebeau · 2021-02-06 01:00

Attached is an updated IdGlobal.pas.  Further changes will be checked
into this GitHub branch.

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Remy Lebeau · 2021-02-16 17:15

Quote from: Remy Lebeau on February 06, 2021, 02:00:20 amFurther
changes will be checked into this GitHub branch.

That branch has now been merged into Indy's main code.