compile vlc-android not working - iconv not found

Question

I am trying to compile vlc-android from source acording to this manual. AndroidCompile

I'm getting this error:

  CC       src/smb_utils.lo
src/smb_utils.c:32:19: fatal error: iconv.h: No such file or directory
 #include <iconv.h>
               ^
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [src/smb_utils.lo] Error 1

And at the end this:

checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv
configure: error: iconv() not found
make: *** [.zvbi] Error 1
contribs: make failed

The weird thing is that it workied fine yesterday.
Im using Linux Mint 17.2

Answer 1

Found the solution (workaround actually).
Problem is that android patch for iconv (contrib/src/iconv/libiconv-android-ios.patch) fails to apply. It is already applied in iconv version 1.14

Temporary workaround is to comment out patch applying for android. It is on line 26 of contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak