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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br>
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<abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 2.6
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ReadMe</h1>
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<p>Version: 2003-Jun-04<br>
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Copyright © 1997-2003 International Business Machines Corporation and
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others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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<h2 class="TOC">Table of Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
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<li><a href="#GettingStarted">Getting Started</a></li>
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<li><a href="#News">What Is New In This release?</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Download">How To Download the Source Code</a></li>
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<li><a href="#SourceCode">ICU Source Code Organization</a></li>
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<a href="#HowToBuild">How To Build And Install ICU</a>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildSupported">Supported Platforms</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildWindows">Windows</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildWindowsXP64">Windows XP on IA64</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildUnix">Unix</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildZOS">z/OS (os/390)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToBuildOS400">OS/400 (iSeries)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToPackage">How To Package ICU</a></li>
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<li>
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<a href="#ImportantNotes">Important Notes About Using ICU</a>
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<li><a href="#ImportantNotesCPlusPlus">Using ICU in a Multithreaded
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Environment</a></li>
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<li><a href="#CharStrings">char * strings in ICU</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ImportantNotesDefaultCP">Using the Default
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Codepage</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ImportantNotesWindows">Windows Platform</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ImportantNotesUnix">Unix Type Platforms</a></li>
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<a href="#PlatformDependencies">Platform Dependencies</a>
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<li><a href="#PlatformDependenciesNew">Porting To A New
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Platform</a></li>
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<li><a href="#PlatformDependenciesImpl">Platform Dependent
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Implementations</a></li>
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<li><a href="#PlatformDependenciesBuildOrder">Build Order Without
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Using ICU's Makefiles</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="Introduction" href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
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<p>Today's software market is a global one in which it is desirable to
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develop and maintain one application (single source/single binary) that
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supports a wide variety of languages. The International Components for
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Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services
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on a wide variety of platforms to help this design goal. The ICU libraries
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provide support for:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The latest version of the Unicode standard</li>
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<li>Character set conversions with support for over 200 codepages</li>
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<li>Locale data for more than 230 locales</li>
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<li>Language sensitive text collation (sorting) and searching based on
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the Unicode Collation Algorithm (=ISO 14651)</li>
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<li>Regular expression matching and Unicode sets</li>
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<li>Transformations for normalization, upper/lowercase, script
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transliterations (50+ pairs)</li>
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<li>Resource bundles for storing and accessing localized information</li>
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<li>Date/Number/Message formatting and parsing of culture specific
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input/output formats</li>
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<li>Calendar specific date and time manipulation</li>
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<li>Complex text layout for Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and Thai</li>
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<li>Text boundary analysis for finding characters, word and sentence
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boundaries</li>
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</ul>
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<p>ICU has a sister project <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/">ICU4J</a> that extends the
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internationalization capabilities of Java to a level similar to ICU. The
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ICU C/C++ project is also called ICU4C when a distinction is necessary.</p>
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<h2><a name="GettingStarted" href="#GettingStarted">Getting
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started</a></h2>
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<p>This document describes how to build and install ICU on your machine.
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For other information about ICU please see the following table of
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links.<br>
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The ICU homepage also links to related information about writing
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internationalized software.</p>
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Here are some useful links regarding ICU and internationalization in
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general.
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<td>ICU Homepage</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/</a></td>
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<td>ICU4J Homepage</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/</a></td>
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<td>FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about ICU</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/icufaq.html">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/icufaq.html</a></td>
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<td>ICU User's Guide</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/</a></td>
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<td>Download ICU Releases</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/</a></td>
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<td>API Documentation Online</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/apiref/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/apiref/</a></td>
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<td>Online ICU Demos</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/demo/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/demo/</a></td>
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<td>Contacts and Bug Reports/Feature Requests</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/archives/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/archives/</a></td>
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</table>
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<p><strong>Important:</strong> Please make sure you understand the <a href=
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"license.html">Copyright and License Information</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="News" href="#News">What is new in this release?</a></h2>
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<p>The following list concentrates on <em>changes that affect existing
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applications migrating from previous ICU releases</em>. For more news about
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this release, see the <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6/">ICU 2.6 download
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page</a>.</p>
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<h3>ICU code library size</h3>
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<p>ICU code libraries can be made smaller by removing functionality. See
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the <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/packaging.html">Packaging
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ICU</a> section of the User's Guide.</p>
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<h3>Support for Unicode 4.0</h3>
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<p>Unicode properties and algorithms have been upgraded to <a href=
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"http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/">Unicode 4.0</a>, which
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includes the addition of 1226 new encoded characters. The UCA (<a href=
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"http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/">Unicode Collation Algorithm</a>)
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table is still at version 3.1.1, with Unicode 4-based canonical closure,
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because UCA 4 is not available yet. All Unicode properties (except for
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those in Unihan.txt) are now <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/properties.html">available via
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direct APIs, and most via UnicodeSet</a>.</p>
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<p>Note that a Unicode update includes changes in algorithms. For example,
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the default iterator for finding titlecasing positions has changed from the
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titlecasing iterator to the word break iterator according to the Unicode
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Standard.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Corrigenda">Unicode 4
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fixes 5 normalization bugs</a>, which changes the decomposition and
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canonical equivalence of 5 characters. ICU 2.6 normalization uses Unicode 4
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data, therefore it contains these bug fixes.</p>
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<h3>Currency formatting</h3>
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<p>Formatting of currency values has been improved in ICU 2.6 by allowing
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the specification of any currency with any language-specific formatter. The
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currency itself can be chosen independently of the display language, but an
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appropriately localized string will be displayed for the currency symbol.
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The display symbol data is not fully fleshed out. See the API references
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for ucurr.h and NumberFormat. <code>icu/source/samples/numfmt/</code> is
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updated to illustrate this feature.</p>
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<h3>XML resource bundles</h3>
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<p>The ICU team had developed a custom XML format that matched the
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capabilities of the binary data structure of ICU .res files. This format
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was not known to be used and not optimal for translation/localization. ICU
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2.6 supports the standard XLIFF format for product localization by
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providing tools to convert between .xlf and ICU .txt files. See the User
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Guide <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/localizing.html">Localizing with
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ICU</a> chapter for details. The previous, ICU-specific XML format has been
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withdrawn.</p>
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<h3>Flexible data loading</h3>
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<p>ICU 2.2 has an extended search path functionality, more flexible data
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override capabilities, and removes lesser-known heuristics for determining
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the data path.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Performance: ICU will only load data from packages, not from single
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files, when the search path is empty. This eliminates all file system
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accesses after the packages (ICU data + application data) are loaded.<br>
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If this is important, then an application should set the search path to
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the empty path during initialization.</li>
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<li>Customizability: If the search path is not empty, then ICU searches
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for single files before looking in packages, allowing to override/update
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packaged data.</li>
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<li>User data: The new function ucnv_openPackage allows an application to
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load an ICU character mapping table from its own data. This enables
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applications to support more codepages than the ICU installation that it
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uses.</li>
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<li>Separation between ICU data and user data: Single data files must now
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always have a package name as prefix, which results in different file
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names between ICU and all application packages even for the same locale
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IDs etc.</li>
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<li>Multi-path: The search path can now contain multiple folders and can
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list packages directly instead of just a single folder.</li>
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<li>Predictability: The search path can be set via the ICU_DATA
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environment variable or via the u_setDataDirectory() function.<br>
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ICU does not perform any other heuristics any more.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> while some of the old binary data may be still
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readable by ICU 2.2 (resource bundles, for example), they need to be
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repackaged in order to be used.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>If you have individual binary files, you have to rename them so that
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you prepend a <code>'packagename_'</code>. Then use
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<code>packagename</code> for opening.</li>
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<li>If you have a memory-mapped package file, you will need to unpack it
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(use decmn tool), rename individual files as above (prepending the
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package name), and repack the files.</li>
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<li>If you have a shared library file, you'll need to somehow get
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individual files and repackage them.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Experimental locales moved to new repository</h3>
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<p>Experimental locales are ones for which we have incomplete data. Data
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for such locales used to be included in the default ICU download, but have
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been moved to a new <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/locale/icu/experimental/">locale data
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repository</a>, stored as another <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/develop/cvs.html">ICU CVS module</a>. This
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data can be added back into a customized ICU build, see the <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/icudata.html">User Guide Data
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chapter</a>. It can also still be viewed with the <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/demo/">LocaleExplorer demo</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Download" href="#Download">How To Download the Source
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Code</a></h2>
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<p>There are two ways to download ICU releases:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Official Release Snapshot:</strong><br>
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If you want to use ICU (as opposed to developing it), you should
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download an official packaged version of the ICU source code. These
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versions are tested more thoroughly than day-to-day development builds of
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the system, and they are packaged in zip and tar files for convenient
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download. These packaged files can be found at <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/</a>.<br>
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The packaged snapshots are named <strong>icu-nnnn.zip</strong> or
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<strong>icu-nnnn.tgz</strong>, where nnnn is the version number. The .zip
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file is used for Windows platforms, while the .tgz file is preferred on
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most other platforms.<br>
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Please unzip this file. It will reconstruct the source directory, which
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includes anonymous CVS control directories (see below).</li>
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<li><strong>CVS Source Repository:</strong><br>
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If you are interested in developing features, patches, or bug fixes for
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ICU, you should probably be working with the latest version of the ICU
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source code. You will need to check the code out of our CVS repository to
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ensure that you have the most recent version of all of the files. See our
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<a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/develop/cvs.html">CVS page</a>
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for details.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="SourceCode" href="#SourceCode">ICU Source Code
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Organization</a></h2>
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<p>In the descriptions below, <strong><i><ICU></i></strong> is the
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full path name of the icu directory (the top level directory from the
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distribution archives) in your file system. You can also view the <a href=
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/design.html">User's Guide</a> to
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see which libraries you need for your software product. You need at least
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the data (<code>[lib]icudt</code>) and the common (<code>[lib]icuuc</code>)
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libraries in order to use ICU.</p>
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The following files describe the code drop.
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<th scope="col">File</th>
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<th scope="col">Description</th>
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<td>readme.html</td>
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<td>Describes the International Components for Unicode (this file)</td>
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<td>license.html</td>
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<td>Contains the text of the ICU license</td>
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<p><br>
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</p>
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The following directories contain source code and data files.
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<th scope="col">Directory</th>
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<th scope="col">Description</th>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>common</b>/</td>
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<td>The core Unicode and support functionality, such as resource
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bundles, character properties, locales, codepage conversion,
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normalization, Unicode properties, Locale, and UnicodeString.</td>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>i18n</b>/</td>
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<td>Modules in i18n are generally the more data-driven, that is to say
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resource bundle driven, components. These deal with higher-level
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internationalization issues such as formatting, collation, text break
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analysis, and transliteration.</td>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>data</b>/</td>
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<td>
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This directory contains the source data in text format, which is
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compiled into binary form during the ICU build process. It contains
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several subdirectories, in which the data files are grouped by
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function. Note that the build process must be run again after any
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changes are made to this directory.
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<ul>
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<li><b>brkitr/</b> Data files for character, word, sentence, title
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casing and line boundary analysis.</li>
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<li><b>locales/</b> These .txt files contain ICU language and
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culture-specific localization data. Two special bundles are
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<b>root</b>, which is the fallback data and parent of other
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bundles, and <b>index</b>, which contains a list of installed
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bundles. The makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b> contains the list of
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resource bundle files.</li>
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<li><b>mappings/</b> Here are the code page converter tables. These
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.ucm files contain mappings to and from Unicode. These are compiled
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into .cnv files. <b>convrtrs.txt</b> is the alias mapping table
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from various converter name formats to ICU internal format and vice
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versa. It produces cnvalias.icu. The makefiles <b>ucmfiles.mk,
|
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ucmcore.mk,</b> and <b>ucmebcdic.mk</b> contain the list of
|
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converters to be built.</li>
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|
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<li><b>translit/</b> This directory contains transliterator rules
|
|
as resource bundles, a makefile <b>trnsfiles.mk</b> containing the
|
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list of installed system translitaration files, and as well the
|
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special bundle <b>translit_index</b> which lists the system
|
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transliterator aliases.</li>
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|
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<li><b>unidata/</b> This directory contains the Unicode data files.
|
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Please see <a href=
|
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"http://www.unicode.org/">http://www.unicode.org/</a> for more
|
|
information.</li>
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<li><b>misc/</b> The misc directory contains other data files which
|
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did not fit into the above categories. Currently it only contains
|
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<b>timezone.txt,</b> a generated file, which is compiled into
|
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tz.dat. The <b>tz.dat</b> file contains time zone information.</li>
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<li><b>out/</b> This directory contains the assembled memory mapped
|
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files.</li>
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<li><b>out/build/</b> This directory contains intermediate
|
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(compiled) files, such as .cnv, .res, etc.</li>
|
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>intltest</b>/</td>
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|
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<td>A test suite including all C++ APIs. For information about running
|
|
the test suite, see the users' guide.</td>
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</tr>
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|
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<tr>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>cintltst</b>/</td>
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|
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<td>A test suite written in C, including all C APIs. For information
|
|
about running the test suite, see the users' guide.</td>
|
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>testdata</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Source text files for data, which are read by the tests. It
|
|
contains the subdirectories <b>out/build/</b> which is used for
|
|
intermediate files, and <b>out/</b> which contains the files
|
|
<b>test1.cnv</b> through <b>test4.cnv,</b> and <b>testdata.dat.</b>
|
|
Note that the tests call
|
|
u_setDataDirectory("<ICU>/source/test/testdata/lib"), so that ICU
|
|
will load these files as if they were part of the ICU data package, for
|
|
testing purposes. This was formerly accomplished by setting the
|
|
ICU_DATA environment variable to point at these files. ICU_DATA should
|
|
not be set under normal circumstances.</td>
|
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</tr>
|
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>tools</b>/</td>
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|
|
<td>Tools for generating the data files. Data files are generated by
|
|
invoking <i><ICU></i>/source/data/build/makedata.bat on Win32 or
|
|
<i><ICU></i>/source/make on Unix.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>samples</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Various sample programs that use ICU</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>extra</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Non-supported API additions. Currently, it contains the 'ustdio'
|
|
file i/o library</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>layout</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains the ICU layout engine (not a rasterizer).</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>packaging</b>/<br>
|
|
<i><ICU></i>/<b>debian</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>These directories contain scripts and tools for packaging the final
|
|
ICU build for various release platforms.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>config</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains helper makefiles for platform specific build commands.
|
|
Used by 'configure'.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>allinone</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains top-level ICU workspace and project files, for instance to
|
|
build all of ICU under one MSVC project.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>bin</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains the libraries and executables for using ICU on
|
|
Windows.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>include</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains the headers needed for developing software that uses ICU
|
|
on Windows.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
<!-- end of ICU structure ==================================== -->
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|
|
|
<h2><a name="HowToBuild" href="#HowToBuild">How To Build And Install
|
|
ICU</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildSupported" href="#HowToBuildSupported">Supported
|
|
Platforms</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<table border="1" cellpadding="3">
|
|
<caption>
|
|
Here is a status of functionality of ICU on several different
|
|
platforms.
|
|
</caption>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th scope="col">Operating system</th>
|
|
|
|
<th scope="col">Compiler</th>
|
|
|
|
<th scope="col">Testing frequency</th>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Windows 2000/XP</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Red Hat Linux 7.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 2.96</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>AIX 5.1.0 L</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Visual Age C++ 5.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Workshop Pro (Forte) CC 6.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>HP-UX 11.01</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>aCC A.12.10<br>
|
|
cc A.11.01.00</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Windows NT/98</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Mac OS X (10.2)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 3.1<br>
|
|
(Developer Tools, July 2002)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Workshop Pro CC 4.2<br>
|
|
(use 'runConfigureICU SOLARISCC/W4.2')</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 2.95.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>FreeBSD 4.4</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 2.95.3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Red Hat Alpha Linux 7.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 2.96</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Red Hat Alpha Linux 7.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Compaq C++ Compiler 3.2<br>
|
|
Compaq C Compiler 6.5.6</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>z/OS 1.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>cxx 1.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>AIX 4.3.3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>xlC_r 4.0.2.1</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>AS/400 (iSeries) V5R1</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>iCC</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>CygWin</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 2.95.3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>HP-UX 11.01</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>CC A.03.10</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>NetBSD, OpenBSD</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>SGI/IRIX</td>
|
|
|
|
<td> </td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Tru64 (OSF)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Compaq's cxx compiler</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
|
|
<p><br>
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<h4>Key to testing frequency</h4>
|
|
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt><i>Reference platform</i></dt>
|
|
|
|
<dd>ICU will work on these platforms with these compilers</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><i>Regularly tested</i></dt>
|
|
|
|
<dd>ICU should work on these platforms with these compilers</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><i>Rarely tested</i></dt>
|
|
|
|
<dd>ICU has been ported to these platforms but may not have been tested
|
|
there recently</dd>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildWindows" href="#HowToBuildWindows">How To Build And
|
|
Install On Windows</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Building International Components for Unicode requires:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Microsoft NT 4.0 and above, or Windows 98 and above</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (Service Pack 2 is required to work with the
|
|
release build of max speed optimization).</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>(If you want to build with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, please refer to
|
|
the <a href="#HowToBuildWindowsDotNet">note about building with Visual
|
|
Studio .NET</a> below.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The steps are:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Unzip the icu-XXXX.zip file into any convenient location. Using
|
|
command line zip, type "unzip -a icu-XXXX.zip -d drive:\directory", or
|
|
just use WinZip.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Be sure that the ICU binary directory, <i><ICU></i>\bin\, is
|
|
included in the <strong>PATH</strong> environment variable. The tests
|
|
will not work without the location of the ICU dll files in the path.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Set the <strong>TZ</strong> environment variable to
|
|
<strong>PST8PDT</strong>. The tests will not work in any other time
|
|
zone.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Open the "<i><ICU></i>\source\allinone\allinone.dsw" workspace
|
|
file in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. (This workspace includes all the
|
|
International Components for Unicode libraries, necessary ICU building
|
|
tools, and the intltest and cintltest test suite projects). Please see
|
|
the note below if you want to build from the command line instead.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Set the active Project to the "all" project. To do this: Choose
|
|
"Project" menu, and select "Set active project". In the submenu, select
|
|
the "all" workspace.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Set the active configuration to "Win32 Debug" or "Win32 Release" (See
|
|
<a href="#HowToBuildWindowsConfig">note</a> below).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Choose the "Build" menu and select "Rebuild All". If you want to
|
|
build the Debug and Release at the same time, see the <a href=
|
|
"#HowToBuildWindowsBatch">note</a> below.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run the C++ test suite, "intltest". To do this: set the active
|
|
project to "intltest", and press F5 to run it.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run the C test suite, "cintltst". To do this: set the active project
|
|
to "cintltst", and press F5 to run it.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Make sure that both "cintltst" and "intltest" passed without any
|
|
errors. The return codes are non-zero when they do not pass. Visual C++
|
|
will display the return codes in the debug tag of the output window. When
|
|
"intltest" and "cintltest" return 0, it means that everything is
|
|
installed correctly. You can press Ctrl+F5 on the test project to run the
|
|
test and see what error messages were displayed (if any tests
|
|
failed).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Reset the <strong>TZ</strong> environment variable to its original
|
|
value, unless you plan on testing ICU any further.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>You are now able to develop applications with ICU by using the
|
|
libraries and tools in <i><ICU></i>\bin\. The headers are in
|
|
<i><ICU></i>\include\ and the link libraries are in
|
|
<i><ICU></i>\lib\. To install the ICU runtime on a machine, or ship
|
|
it with your application, copy the needed components from
|
|
<i><ICU></i>\bin\ to a location on the system PATH or to your
|
|
application directory.</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsCommandLine"><strong>Using MSDEV At The
|
|
Command Line Note:</strong></a> You can build ICU from the command line.
|
|
Assuming that you have properly installed Microsoft Visual C++ to support
|
|
command line execution, you can run the following command, 'msdev
|
|
<i><ICU></i>\source\allinone\allinone.dsw /MAKE "ALL"'.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsConfig"><strong>Setting Active Configuration
|
|
Note:</strong></a> To set the active configuration, two different
|
|
possibilities are:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Choose "Build" menu, select "Set Active Configuration", and select
|
|
"Win32 Release" or "Win32 Debug".</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Another way is to select "Customize" in the "Tools" menu, select the
|
|
"Toolbars" tab, enable "Build" instead of "Build Minibar", and click on
|
|
"Close". This will bring up a toolbar which you can move aside the other
|
|
permanent toolbars at the top of the MSVC window. The advantage is that
|
|
you now have an easy-to-reach pop-up menu that will always show the
|
|
currently selected active configuration. Or, you can drag the project and
|
|
configuration selections and drop them on the menu bar for later
|
|
selection.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsBatch"><strong>Batch Configuration
|
|
Note:</strong></a> If you want to build the Debug and Release
|
|
configurations at the same time, choose "Build" menu and select "Batch
|
|
Build..." instead (and mark all configurations as checked), then click the
|
|
button named "Rebuild All". The "all" workspace will build all the
|
|
libraries, test programs and various ICU tools (e.g. genrb for generating
|
|
binary locale data files).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsDotNet"><strong>Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
|
|
Note:</strong></a> ICU will build with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, though
|
|
this is not a supported platform at the time of this writing. Visual Studio
|
|
.NET will offer to convert the project files when you open the existing
|
|
workspace file. Choose "Yes to All" in the dialog asking whether to convert
|
|
the files or not (this creates new files) and then follow the rest of the
|
|
build instructions.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildWindowsXP64" href="#HowToBuildWindowsXP64">How To
|
|
Build And Install On Windows XP on IA64</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Building International Components for Unicode requires:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Microsoft XP on an IA64 (Itanium®) machine</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (Service Pack 2 is required to work with the
|
|
release build of max speed optimization).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Microsoft Platform SDK.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>The steps are:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Follow steps 1-3 in the <a href="#HowToBuildWindows">in the previous
|
|
section</a>.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Open the "Set Windows XP 64-bit Build Environment (Retail)" command
|
|
window from the Microsoft Platform SDK.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Use cd to get into the <i><ICU></i> directory.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run this command: 'msdev /USEENV
|
|
<i><ICU></i>\source\allinone\allinone.dsw /MAKE "all - Win64
|
|
Release"'</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run "cd source\test\intltest\Release"</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run the C++ test suite, "intltest". There should be no errors.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run "cd ..\..\cintltst\Release"</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run the C test suite, "cintltst". There should be no errors.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Follow the last two steps in the <a href="#HowToBuildWindows">in the
|
|
previous section</a>.</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildUnix" href="#HowToBuildUnix">How To Build And
|
|
Install On Unix</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Building International Components for Unicode on Unix requires:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>A C++ compiler installed on the target machine (for example: gcc, CC,
|
|
xlC_r, aCC, cxx, etc...).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>An ANSI C compiler installed on the target machine (for example:
|
|
cc).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>A recent version of GNU make (3.77+).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>For a list of z/OS tools please view the <a href=
|
|
"#HowToBuildZOS">z/OS build section</a> of this document for further
|
|
details.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here are the steps to build ICU:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Decompress the icu-<i>X</i>.<i>Y</i>.tgz (or
|
|
icu-<i>X</i>.<i>Y</i>.tar.gz) file. For example, <tt>"gunzip -d <
|
|
icu-<i>X</i>.<i>Y</i>.tgz | tar xvf -"</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Change directory to the "icu/source".</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>"chmod +x runConfigureICU configure install-sh"</tt> because
|
|
these files may have the wrong permissions.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run the <tt><a href="source/runConfigureICU">runConfigureICU</a></tt>
|
|
script for your platform. (See <a href="#HowToConfigureICU">note</a>
|
|
below).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Type <tt>"gmake"</tt> (or "make" if GNU make is the default make on
|
|
your platform) to compile the libraries and all the data files. The
|
|
proper name of the GNU make command is printed at the end of the
|
|
configuration run, as in "You must use gmake to compile ICU".</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Optionally, type <tt>"gmake check"</tt> to run the test suite, which
|
|
checks for ICU's functionality integrity (See <a href=
|
|
"#HowToTestWithoutGmake">note</a> below).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Type <tt>"gmake install"</tt> to install ICU. If you used the
|
|
--prefix= option on configure or runConfigureICU, ICU will be installed
|
|
to the directory you specified. (See <a href="#HowToInstallICU">note</a>
|
|
below).</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToConfigureICU"><strong>Configuring ICU NOTE:</strong></a>
|
|
Type <tt>"./runConfigureICU --help"</tt> for help on how to run it and a
|
|
list of supported platforms. You may also want to type <tt>"./configure
|
|
--help"</tt> to print the available configure options that you may want to
|
|
give runConfigureICU. If you are not using the runConfigureICU script, or
|
|
your platform is not supported by the script, you may need to set your
|
|
CC,CXX, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS environment variables, and type
|
|
<tt>"./configure"</tt>. Some of the more frequently used options to
|
|
configure are --disable-64bit-libs to create 32-bit libraries, and --srcdir
|
|
to do out of source builds (build the libraries in the current location).
|
|
HP-UX user's, please see this <a href="#ImportantNotesHPUX">note</a>
|
|
regarding multithreaded build issues with newer compilers.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToTestWithoutGmake"><strong>Running The Tests From The
|
|
Command Line NOTE:</strong></a> You may have to set certain variables if
|
|
you with to run test programs individually, that is apart from "gmake
|
|
check". The <strong>TZ</strong> environment variable needs to be set to
|
|
<strong>PST8PDT</strong>. Also, the environment variable
|
|
<strong>ICU_DATA</strong> can be set to the full pathname of the data
|
|
directory to indicate where the locale data files and conversion mapping
|
|
tables are when you are not using the shared library (e.g. by using the
|
|
.dat archive or the individual data files). The trailing "/" is required
|
|
after the directory name (e.g. "$Root/source/data/out/" will work, but the
|
|
value "$Root/source/data/out" is not acceptable). You do not need to set
|
|
<strong>ICU_DATA</strong> if the complete shared data library is in your
|
|
library path.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><a name="HowToInstallICU"><strong>Installing ICU NOTE:</strong></a> Some
|
|
platforms use package management tools to control the installation and
|
|
uninstallation of files on the system, as well as the integrity of the
|
|
system configuration. You may want to check if ICU can be packaged for your
|
|
package management tools by looking into the "packaging" directory. (Please
|
|
note that if you are using a snapshot of ICU from CVS, it is probable that
|
|
the packaging scripts or related files are not up to date with the contents
|
|
of ICU at this time, so use them with caution).</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildZOS" href="#HowToBuildZOS">How To Build And Install
|
|
On z/OS (OS/390)</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>You can install ICU on z/OS or OS/390 (the previous name of z/OS), but
|
|
IBM tests only the z/OS installation. These platforms commonly are called
|
|
"MVS". You install ICU in a z/OS UNIX system services file system such as
|
|
HFS or zFS. On this platform, it is important that you understand a few
|
|
details:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>APAR PQ58392 may be needed by z/OS 1.2 or 1.3 in order to get some
|
|
ICU number formatting functions to work properly. The APAR affects C and
|
|
C++ code.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The gnu utilities gmake and gzip/gunzip are needed and can be
|
|
obtained for z/OS from <a href=
|
|
"http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html#opensrc">
|
|
z/OS Unix - Tools and Toys</a>. Documentation on these tools can be found
|
|
at the <a href=
|
|
"http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg245944.html">
|
|
Open Source Software for z/OS UNIX</a> Red Book.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Encoding considerations: The source code assumes that it is compiled
|
|
with codepage ibm-1047 (to be exact, the UNIX System Services variant of
|
|
it). The pax command converts all of the source code files from ASCII to
|
|
codepage ibm-1047 (USS) EBCDIC. However, some files are binary files and
|
|
must not be converted, or must be converted back to their original state.
|
|
You can use the <a href="as_is/os390/unpax-icu.sh">unpax-icu.sh</a>
|
|
script to do this for you automatically. It will unpackage the tar file
|
|
and convert all the necessary files for you automatically.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>z/OS supports both native S/390 hexadecimal floating point and,
|
|
(with OS/390 2.6 and later) IEEE binary floating point. This is a
|
|
compile time option. Applications built with IEEE should use ICU dlls
|
|
that are built with IEEE (and vice versa). The environment variable
|
|
IEEE390=1 will cause the z/OS version of ICU to be built with IEEE
|
|
floating point. The default is native hexadecimal floating point.<br>
|
|
<em>Important:</em> Currently (ICU 1.4.2), native floating point
|
|
support is sufficient for codepage conversion, resource bundle and
|
|
UnicodeString operations, but the Format APIs, especially ChoiceFormat,
|
|
require IEEE binary floating point.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Examples for configuring ICU:<br>
|
|
Debug build: <code>IEEE390=1 ./runConfigureICU --enable-debug
|
|
zOS</code><br>
|
|
Release build: <code>IEEE390=1 ./runConfigureICU zOS</code></p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>z/OS introduced the concept of Extra Performance Linkage (XPLINK) to
|
|
bring performance improvement opportunities to call-intensive C and C++
|
|
applications such as ICU. XPLINK is enabled on a DLL-by-DLL basis, so
|
|
if you are considering using XPLINK in your application that uses ICU,
|
|
you should consider building the XPLINK-enabled version of ICU. You
|
|
need to set ICU's environment variable <code>OS390_XPLINK=1</code>
|
|
prior to invoking the make process to produce binaries that are enabled
|
|
for XPLINK.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Note: XPLINK, enabled for z/OS 1.2 and later, requires the PTF for
|
|
PQ69418 to build XPLINK-enabled binaries.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Since the default make on z/OS is not gmake, the pkgdata tool
|
|
requires that the "make" command is aliased to your installed version of
|
|
gmake. You may also need to set $MAKE equal to the fully-qualified path
|
|
of GNU make. GNU make is available with the "z/OS Unix - Tools and Toys"
|
|
that was mentioned above. The required version is the same Unix build
|
|
instructions.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The makedep executable that is used with the z/OS ICU build process
|
|
is not shipped with ICU. It is available at the <a href=
|
|
"http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html#opensrc">
|
|
z/OS Unix - Tools and Toys</a> site. The PATH environment variable should
|
|
be updated to contain the location of this executable prior to build.
|
|
Alternatively, makedep may be moved into an existing PATH directory.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>When you build ICU on a system such as z/OS 1.2, the binaries that
|
|
result can run on that level of the operating system and later, such as
|
|
z/OS 1.3 and z/OS 1.4. It's possible that you may have a z/OS 1.4
|
|
system and, for example, need to deliver binaries on z/OS 1.2 and
|
|
above. z/OS gives you this ability by targetting the complier and
|
|
linker to run at the older level, thereby producing the desired
|
|
binaries.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>To set the compiler and LE environment to OS/390 2.10, specify the
|
|
following:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>./runConfigureICU OS390V2R10</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>To set the compiler and LE environment to z/OS 1.2 specify the
|
|
following:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>./runConfigureICU zOSV1R2</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The rest of the instructions for building and testing ICU on z/OS
|
|
with Unix System Services are the same as the <a href=
|
|
"#HowToBuildUnix">How To Build And Install On Unix</a> section.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h4>z/OS (Batch/PDS) support outside the UNIX system services
|
|
environment</h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>By default, ICU builds its libraries into the UNIX file system (HFS). In
|
|
addition, there is a z/OS specific environment variable (OS390BATCH) to
|
|
build some libraries into the z/OS native file system. This is useful, for
|
|
example, when your application is externalized via Job Control Language
|
|
(JCL).</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The OS390BATCH environment variable enables non-UNIX support including
|
|
the batch environment. When OS390BATCH is set, the libicuuc<i>XX</i>.dll,
|
|
libicudt<i>XX</i>e.dll, and libicudt<i>XX</i>e_stub.dll binaries are built
|
|
into data sets (the native file system). Turning on OS390BATCH does not
|
|
turn off the normal z/OS UNIX build. This means that the The z/OS UNIX
|
|
(HFS) dlls will always be created.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Two additional environment variables indicate the names of the z/OS data
|
|
sets to use. The LOADMOD environment variable identifies the name of the
|
|
data set that contains the dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and the LOADEXP
|
|
environment variable identifies the name of the data set that contains the
|
|
side decks, which are normally the files with the .x suffix in the UNIX
|
|
file system.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A data set is roughly equivalent to a UNIX or Windows file. For most
|
|
kinds of data sets the operating system maintains record boundaries. UNIX
|
|
and Windows files are byte streams. Two kinds of data sets are PDS and
|
|
PDSE. Each data set of these two types contains a directory. It is like a
|
|
UNIX directory. Each "file" is called a "member". Each member name is
|
|
limited to eight bytes, normally EBCDIC.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Here is an example of some environment variables that you can set prior
|
|
to building ICU:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>OS390BATCH=1
|
|
LOADMOD=<i>USER</i>.ICU.LOAD
|
|
LOADEXP=<i>USER</i>.ICU.EXP</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>The PDS member names for the DLL file names are as follows:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>IXMI<i>XX</i>UC --> libicuuc<i>XX</i>.dll
|
|
IXMI<i>XX</i>DA --> libicudt<i>XX</i>e.dll
|
|
IXMI<i>XX</i>D1 --> libicudt<i>XX</i>e_stub.dll <i>(Only when OS390_STUBDATA=1)</i></samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>You should point the LOADMOD environment variable at a partitioned data
|
|
set extended (PDSE) and point the LOADEXP environment variable at a
|
|
partitioned data set (PDS). The PDSE can be allocated with the following
|
|
attributes:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>Data Set Name . . . : <i>USER</i>.ICU.LOAD
|
|
Management class. . : <i>**None**</i>
|
|
Storage class . . . : <i>BASE</i>
|
|
Volume serial . . . : <i>TSO007</i>
|
|
Device type . . . . : <i>3390</i>
|
|
Data class. . . . . : LOAD
|
|
Organization . . . : PO
|
|
Record format . . . : U
|
|
Record length . . . : 0
|
|
Block size . . . . : 32760
|
|
1st extent cylinders: 1
|
|
Secondary cylinders : 5
|
|
Data set name type : LIBRARY</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>The PDS can be allocated with the following attributes:</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>Data Set Name . . . : <i>USER</i>.ICU.EXP
|
|
Management class. . : <i>**None**</i>
|
|
Storage class . . . : <i>BASE</i>
|
|
Volume serial . . . : <i>TSO007</i>
|
|
Device type . . . . : <i>3390</i>
|
|
Data class. . . . . : <i>**None**</i>
|
|
Organization . . . : PO
|
|
Record format . . . : FB
|
|
Record length . . . : 80
|
|
Block size . . . . : <i>3200</i>
|
|
1st extent cylinders: 3
|
|
Secondary cylinders : 3
|
|
Data set name type : PDS</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="HowToBuildOS400" href="#HowToBuildOS400">How To Build And
|
|
Install On OS/400 (iSeries)</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>ICU Reference Release 2.6 contains partial support for the iSeries
|
|
platform. After building ICU and running the tests, you may notice that
|
|
some of the formatting tests fail. The formating failures can be ignored
|
|
for now. These failures are expected to be resolved in a future release of
|
|
OS/400.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Before you start building ICU, ICU requires the following:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>QSHELL interpreter installed (install base option 30, operating
|
|
system)</li>
|
|
<!--li>QShell Utilities, PRPQ 5799-XEH (not required for V4R5)</li-->
|
|
|
|
<li>ILE C/C++ Compiler for iSeries, LPP 5722-WDS</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The latest GNU facilities (You can get the GNU facilities for OS/400
|
|
from <a href=
|
|
"http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/factory/porting/gnu_utilities.html">http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/factory/porting/gnu_utilities.html</a>).
|
|
Older versions may not work properly.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>The following describes how to setup and build ICU. For background
|
|
information, you should look at the <a href="#HowToBuildUnix">Unix</a>
|
|
build instructions.</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>
|
|
Create AS400 target library. This library will be the target for the
|
|
resulting modules, programs and service programs. You will specify this
|
|
library on the OUTPUTDIR environment variable in step 2.<br>
|
|
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>CRTLIB LIB(<i>libraryname</i>)</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
<br>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
Set up the following environment variables in your build process (use
|
|
the <i>libraryname</i> from the previous step)
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(CC) VALUE('/usr/bin/icc')
|
|
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(CXX) VALUE('/usr/bin/icc')
|
|
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(MAKE) VALUE('/usr/bin/gmake')
|
|
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(OUTPUTDIR) VALUE('<i>libraryname</i>')</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
<i>libraryname</i> identifies target as400 library for *module, *pgm
|
|
and *srvpgm objects.<br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<!--li>Add QCXXN, to your build process library list. This results in the resolution of CRTCPPMOD used by the icc compiler</li-->
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
In order to get the tests to run correctly, the QUTCOFFSET needs to be
|
|
set to the Pacific Time Zone offset.<br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
To check your QUTCOFFSET:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>DSPSYSVAL SYSVAL(QUTCOFFSET)</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
<br>
|
|
To change your QUTCOFFSET:<br>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QUTCOFFSET) VALUE('-0800')</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
You should change -0800 to -0700 for daylight savings.<br>
|
|
<br>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'CHGJOB CCSID(37)'</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'QSH'</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run gunzip on the ICU source code compressed tar archive
|
|
(icu-<i>X</i>.<i>Y</i>.tgz or icu-<i>X</i>.<i>Y</i>.tar.gz).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run unpax-icu.sh on the tar file from the ICU download page.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Change your current directory to icu/source.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'export CFLAGS=-O4 CXXFLAGS=-O4'</tt> to optimize your build
|
|
of ICU. If the build fails, rerun these build steps without this step
|
|
before asking the icu4c-support mailing list for help.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'cp ../as_is/os400/configure .'</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'./configure --host=as400-os400'</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
If you specified <tt>--with-data-packaging=archive</tt> to configure,
|
|
you can skip this step. In a future release of ICU, we hope to
|
|
eliminate this complicated step. Any suggestions to improve the ICU
|
|
installation are greatly appreciated, and you can send those
|
|
suggestions to the <a href=
|
|
"http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/icu4c-support/">
|
|
icu4c-support</a> mailing list.
|
|
|
|
<ol type="a">
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'mv data/Makefile data/Makefile.hide'</tt></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'gmake'</tt> to build some of the ICU libraries.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
When the gmake command fails in icu/source/data, run the following
|
|
commands to setup and build the data library:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>cd data
|
|
mv Makefile.hide Makefile
|
|
system CRTLIB "LIB(<i>datalibraryname</i>)"
|
|
gmake OUTPUTDIR=<i>datalibraryname</i>
|
|
system CRTSRVPGM "SRVPGM(<i>libraryname</i>/LIBICUDATA)" "MODULE(<i>datalibraryname</i>/*ALL)"
|
|
"EXPORT(*ALL)" "TEXT('ICU 2.6 DATA')" "OPTION(*DUPPROC *DUPVAR)"
|
|
ln -fs /qsys.lib/<i>libraryname</i>.lib/libicudata.srvpgm out/libicudata.so
|
|
cd ..
|
|
del common/libicuuc.so
|
|
</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Your data library should now be usable. Go to the next step,
|
|
which is needed to rebind to the actual data library and finish the
|
|
build.</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'gmake'</tt> to build ICU.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'gmake check'</tt> to build the tests.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The "utility/MultithreadTest" test in intltest may have failed during
|
|
<tt>'gmake check'</tt>. In order to make this test pass, please use
|
|
<tt>'gmake check QIBM_MULTI_THREADED=Y'</tt> after you built the tests
|
|
with <tt>'gmake check'</tt> from the previous step. You can look at the
|
|
<a href=
|
|
"http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/apis/concept4.htm">
|
|
iSeries Information Center</a> for more details.</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<!-- end build environment -->
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="HowToPackage" href="#HowToPackage">How To Package ICU</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>There are many ways that a person can package ICU with their software
|
|
products. Usually only the libraries need to be considered for
|
|
packaging.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>On Unix, you should have used "<tt>gmake install</tt>" to make it easier
|
|
to develop and package ICU. The bin, lib and include directories are needed
|
|
to develop applications that use ICU. These directories will be created
|
|
relative to the "<tt>--prefix=</tt><i>dir</i>" configure option (See <a
|
|
href="#HowToBuildUnix">above</a>). When ICU is built on Windows, a similar
|
|
directory structure is built.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>When changes have been made to the standard ICU distribution, it is
|
|
recommended that at least one of the following guidelines be followed for
|
|
special packaging.</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Add a suffix name to the library names. This can be done with the
|
|
--with-library-suffix configure option.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>The installation script should install the ICU libraries into the
|
|
application's directory.</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
|
|
<p>Following these guidelines prevents other applications that use a
|
|
standard ICU distribution from conflicting any libraries that you need. On
|
|
operating systems that do not have a standard C++ ABI (name mangling) for
|
|
compilers, it is recommended to do this special packaging anyway. More
|
|
details on customizing ICU are available in the <a href=
|
|
"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/">User's Guide</a>. The <a href=
|
|
"#SourceCode">ICU Source Code Organization</a> section of this readme.html
|
|
gives a more complete description of the libraries.</p>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="3">
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<caption>
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Here is an example of libraries that are frequently packaged.
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</caption>
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|
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<tr>
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<th scope="col">Library Name</th>
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<th scope="col">Windows Filename</th>
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<th scope="col">Linux Filename</th>
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|
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<th scope="col">Comment</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Data Library</td>
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|
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<td>icudt<i>XY</i>l.dll</td>
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|
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<td>libicudata.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
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|
|
|
<td>Data required by the Common and I18n libraries. There are many ways
|
|
to package and <a href=
|
|
"http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/icudata.html">customize this
|
|
data</a>, but by default this is all you need.</td>
|
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</tr>
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|
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<tr>
|
|
<td>Common Library</td>
|
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|
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<td>icuuc<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>libicuuc.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Base library required by all other ICU libraries.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Internationalization (i18n) Library</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>icuin<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>libicui18n.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains many locale based i18n functions.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Layout Engine</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>icule<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>libicule.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains an optional engine for doing font layout.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Layout Extensions Engine</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>iculx<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>libiculx.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains an optional engine for doing font layout that uses parts
|
|
of ICU.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Unicode stdio Library</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>icuio<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>libustdio.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>An unsupported optional library that provides a stdio like API with
|
|
Unicode support.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
|
|
<p>Normally only the above ICU libraries need to be considered for
|
|
packaging. The versionless symbolic links to these libraries are only
|
|
needed for easier development. The <i>X</i>, <i>Y</i> and <i>Z</i> parts of
|
|
the name are the version numbers of ICU. For example, ICU 2.0.2 would have
|
|
the name libicuuc.so.20.2 for the common library. The exact format of the
|
|
library names can vary between platforms due to how each platform can
|
|
handles library versioning.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="ImportantNotes" href="#ImportantNotes">Important Notes About
|
|
Using ICU</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesCPlusPlus" href="#ImportantNotesCPlusPlus">Using
|
|
ICU in a Multithreaded Environment</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you are using ICU in a multithreaded application, there may be a
|
|
chance that the ICU global mutex is not initialized properly. Normally the
|
|
ICU global mutex is initialized during C++ static initialization, but there
|
|
are some compilers and linkers that do not properly perform C++ static
|
|
initialization in a library. Here are some of the cases when the global
|
|
mutex is not initialized:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Static ICU libraries are used.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>ICU is used on Mac OS X</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>ICU is used on HP-UX and the program's main() function is not
|
|
declared in a C++ file.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Upon the first usage of most ICU APIs, the global mutex will get
|
|
initialized. For example, you could call uloc_countAvailable() or
|
|
uloc_getDefault() from your main() function before any threads are created.
|
|
Those functions will initialize the global mutex. Without one of these
|
|
function calls from a single thread, the data caches inside ICU may get
|
|
initialized more than once, which may cause memory leaks and other
|
|
problems. This problem normally does not happen when C++ static
|
|
initialization works properly.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>ICU does not use C++ static initialization for anything else, and
|
|
disabling threads in ICU will disable all C++ static initialization in ICU.
|
|
If you do not have a multithreaded application, you do not need to worry
|
|
about the global mutex.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="ImportantNotesHPUX" href="#ImportantNotesHPUX">Using ICU in a
|
|
Multithreaded Environment on HP-UX</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you are building ICU with a newer aCC compiler, or you are planning
|
|
on using any RogueWave libraries, you will need to set special flags before
|
|
building ICU. These flags are needed in order to make ICU thread safe and
|
|
to allow iostream to work properly. More information on these flags can be
|
|
found <a href=
|
|
"http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/dev/aCC/a_03_30/options.htm#option-mt">here</a>
|
|
and <a href=
|
|
"http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/dev/aCC/a_03_30/options.htm#optioncap-AA">
|
|
here</a>.</p>
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>CFLAGS="-mt" CXXFLAGS="-mt -AA" LDFLAGS="-mt" ./runConfigureICU HP-UX11ACC</samp>
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="CharStrings" href="#CharStrings">char * strings in
|
|
ICU</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The C/C++ languages do not provide a portable way to specify Unicode
|
|
code point or string literals other than with arrays of numeric constants.
|
|
For convenience, ICU4C tends to use char * strings in places where only
|
|
"invariant characters" are used — a portable subset of the 7-bit
|
|
ASCII repertoire — so that locale IDs, charset names, resource bundle
|
|
item keys and similar can be easily specified as string literals in the
|
|
source code. The same types of strings are also stored as "invariant
|
|
character" char * strings in the ICU data files.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>ICU has hardcoded mapping tables in <code>source/common/putil.c</code>
|
|
to convert invariant characters to and from Unicode without using a full
|
|
ICU converter. These tables must match the encoding of string literals in
|
|
the ICU code as well as in the ICU data files.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p><strong>Important:</strong> ICU assumes that at least the invariant
|
|
characters always have the same codes as is common on platforms with the
|
|
same charset family (ASCII vs. EBCDIC). <em>ICU has not been tested on
|
|
platforms where this is not the case.</em></p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Some usage of char * strings in ICU assumes the system charset instead
|
|
of invariant characters; such strings are only handled with the default
|
|
converter. See the following section. (The system charset is usually a
|
|
superset of the invariant characters.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The following are the ASCII and EBCDIC code values for all of the
|
|
invariant characters (see also unicode/utypes.h):</p>
|
|
|
|
<table border="1">
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th>Character(s)</th>
|
|
|
|
<th>ASCII</th>
|
|
|
|
<th>EBCDIC</th>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>a..i</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>61..69</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>81..89</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>j..r</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6A..72</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>91..99</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>s..z</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>73..7A</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>A2..A9</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>A..I</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>41..49</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>C1..C9</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>J..R</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>4A..52</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>D1..D9</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>S..Z</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>53..5A</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>E2..E9</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>0..9</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>30..39</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>F0..F9</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>(space)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>20</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>40</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>"</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>22</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>7F</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>%</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>25</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6C</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>&</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>26</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>50</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>'</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>27</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>7D</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>(</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>28</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>4D</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>29</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>5D</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>*</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2A</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>5C</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>+</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2B</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>4E</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>,</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2C</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6B</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>-</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2D</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>60</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>.</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2E</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>4B</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>2F</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>61</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>:</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3A</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>7A</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>;</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3B</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>5E</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3C</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>4C</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>=</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3D</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>7E</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>></td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3E</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6E</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>?</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>3F</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6F</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>_</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>5F</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>6D</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesDefaultCP" href="#ImportantNotesDefaultCP">Using
|
|
the default codepage</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>ICU has code to determine the default codepage of the system or process.
|
|
This default codepage can be used to convert <code>char *</code> strings to
|
|
and from Unicode.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Depending on system design, setup and APIs, it may not always be
|
|
possible to find a default codepage that fully works as expected. For
|
|
example,</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>On Windows there are three encodings in use at the same time. Unicode
|
|
(UTF-16) is always used inside of Windows, while for <code>char *</code>
|
|
encodings there are two classes, called "ANSI" and "OEM" codepages. ICU
|
|
will use the ANSI codepage. Note that the OEM codepage is used by default
|
|
for console window output.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>On some Unix-type systems, non-standard names are used for encodings,
|
|
or non-standard encodings are used altogether. Although ICU supports 200
|
|
encodings in its standard build and many more aliases for them, it will
|
|
not be able to recognize such non-standard names.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Some systems do not have a notion of a system or process codepage,
|
|
and may not have APIs for that.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you have means of detecting a default codepage name that are more
|
|
appropriate for your application, then you should set that name with
|
|
<code>ucnv_setDefaultName()</code> as the first ICU function call. This
|
|
makes sure that the internally cached default converter will be
|
|
instantiated from your preferred name.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Starting in ICU 2.0, when a converter for the default codepage cannot be
|
|
opened, a fallback default codepage name and converter will be used. On
|
|
most platforms, this will be US-ASCII. For z/OS (OS/390), ibm-1047-s390 is
|
|
the default fallback codepage. For AS/400 (iSeries), ibm-37 is the default
|
|
fallback codepage. This default fallback codepage is used when the
|
|
operating system is using a non-standard name for a default codepage, or
|
|
the converter was not packaged with ICU. The feature allows ICU to run in
|
|
unusual computing environments without completely failing.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesWindows" href="#ImportantNotesWindows">Windows
|
|
Platform</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you are building on the Win32 platform, it is important that you
|
|
understand a few of the following build details.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h4>DLL directories and the PATH setting</h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>As delivered, the International Components for Unicode build as several
|
|
DLLs, which are placed in the "<i><ICU></i>\bin" directory. You must
|
|
add this directory to the PATH environment variable in your system, or any
|
|
executables you build will not be able to access International Components
|
|
for Unicode libraries. Alternatively, you can copy the DLL files into a
|
|
directory already in your PATH, but we do not recommend this. You can wind
|
|
up with multiple copies of the DLL and wind up using the wrong one.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="ImportantNotesWindowsPath">Changing your PATH</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><strong>Windows 2000</strong>: Use the System Icon in the Control
|
|
Panel. Pick the "Advanced" tab. Select the "Environment Variables..."
|
|
button. Select the variable PATH in the lower box, and select the lower
|
|
"Edit..." button. In the "Variable Value" box, append the string
|
|
";<i><ICU></i>\bin" to the end of the path string. If there is
|
|
nothing there, just type in "<i><ICU></i>\bin". Click the Set
|
|
button, then the OK button.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><strong>Windows NT</strong>: Use the System Icon in the Control
|
|
Panel. Pick the "Environment" tab, and select the variable PATH in the
|
|
lower box. In the "value" box, append the string
|
|
";<i><ICU></i>\bin" at the end of the path string. If there is
|
|
nothing there, just type in "<i><ICU></i>\bin". Click the Set
|
|
button, then the OK button.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><strong>Windows 95/98/ME</strong>: Edit the autoexec.bat, and add the
|
|
following line to the end of file, "SET
|
|
PATH=%PATH%;<i><ICU></i>\bin"</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Note: When packaging a Windows application for distribution and
|
|
installation on user systems, copies of the ICU DLLs should be included
|
|
with the application, and installed for exclusive use by the application.
|
|
This is the only way to insure that your application is running with the
|
|
same version of ICU, built with exactly the same options, that you
|
|
developed and tested with. Refer to Microsoft's guidelines on the usage of
|
|
DLLs, or search for the phrase "DLL hell" on <a href=
|
|
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/">msdn.microsoft.com</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesUnix" href="#ImportantNotesUnix">Unix Type
|
|
Platform</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you are building on a Unix platform, and if you are installing ICU in
|
|
a non-standard location, you may need to add the location of your ICU
|
|
libraries to your <strong>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</strong> or
|
|
<strong>LIBPATH</strong> environment variable (or the equivalent runtime
|
|
library path environment variable for your system). The ICU libraries may
|
|
not link or load properly without doing this.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Note that if you do not want to have to set this variable, you may
|
|
instead use the --enable-rpath option at configuration time. This option
|
|
will instruct the linker to always look for the libraries where they are
|
|
installed. You will need to use the appropriate linker options when linking
|
|
your own applications and libraries against ICU, too. Please refer to your
|
|
system's linker manual for information about runtime paths. The use of
|
|
rpath also means that when building a new version of ICU you should not
|
|
have an older version installed in the same place as the new version's
|
|
installation directory, as the older libraries will used during the build,
|
|
instead of the new ones, likely leading to an incorrectly build ICU. (This
|
|
is the proper behavior of rpath.)</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="PlatformDependencies" href="#PlatformDependencies">Platform
|
|
Dependencies</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="PlatformDependenciesNew" href=
|
|
"#PlatformDependenciesNew">Porting To A New Platform</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you are using ICU's Makefiles to build ICU on a new platform, there
|
|
are a few places where you will need to add or modify some files. If you
|
|
need more help, you can always ask the icu4c-support mailing list. Once you
|
|
have finished porting ICU to a new platform, it is recommended that you
|
|
contribute your changes back to ICU via the icu4c-support mailing list.
|
|
This will make it easier for everyone to benefit from your work.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Try to follow the build steps from the <a href=
|
|
"#HowToBuildUnix">Unix</a> build instructions. If the configure script
|
|
fails, then you will need to modify some files. Here are the usual steps
|
|
for porting to a new platform:<br>
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li>Create an mh file in icu/source/config/. You can use mh-linux or a
|
|
similar mh file as your base configuration.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Modify icu/source/aclocal.m4 to recognize your platform's mh
|
|
file.</li>
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<li>Modify icu/source/configure.in to properly set your <b>platform</b> C
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Macro define.</li>
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<li>Run <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">autoconf</a> in
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icu/source/ without any options. The autoconf tool is standard on most
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Linux systems.</li>
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<li>If you have any optimization options that you want to normally use,
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you can modify icu/source/runConfigureICU to specify those options for
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your platform.</li>
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<li>Build and test ICU on your platform. It is very important that you
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run the tests. If you don't run the tests, there is no guarentee that you
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have properly ported ICU.</li>
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</ol>
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<h3><a name="PlatformDependenciesImpl" href=
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"#PlatformDependenciesImpl">Platform Dependent Implementations</a></h3>
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<p>The platform dependencies have been mostly isolated into the following
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files in the common library. This information can be useful if you are
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porting ICU to a new platform.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<strong>unicode/platform.h.in</strong> (autoconf'ed platforms)<br>
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<strong>unicode/p<i>XXXX</i>.h</strong> (others: pwin32.h, pmacos.h,
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..): Platform-dependent typedefs and defines:<br>
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li>XP_CPLUSPLUS for C++ only.</li>
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<li>TRUE and FALSE, UBool, int8_t, int16_t etc.</li>
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<li>U_EXPORT and U_IMPORT for specifying dynamic library import and
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export</li>
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<li>int64_t and uint64_t. If the platform does not support 64 bit
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values, the macro <tt>U_INT64_T_UNAVAILABLE</tt> must be defined. For
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example, this will disable Rule-based number formatting.</li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>unicode/putil.h, putil.c</strong>: platform-dependent
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implementations of various functions that are platform dependent:<br>
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li>uprv_isNaN, uprv_isInfinite, uprv_getNaN and uprv_getInfinity for
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handling special floating point values.</li>
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<li>uprv_tzset, uprv_timezone, uprv_tzname and time for getting
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platform specific time and time zone information.</li>
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<li>u_getDataDirectory for getting the default data directory.</li>
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<li>uprv_getDefaultLocaleID for getting the default locale
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setting.</li>
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<li>uprv_getDefaultCodepage for getting the default codepage
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encoding.</li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>umutex.h, umutex.c</strong>: Code for doing synchronization in
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multithreaded applications. If you wish to use International Components
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for Unicode in a multithreaded application, you must provide a
|
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synchronization primitive that the classes can use to protect their
|
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global data against simultaneous modifications. See Users' guide for
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|
more information.<br>
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li>We supply sample implementations for WinNT, Win95, Win98,
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Sun/Solaris, RedHat/Linux, HP-UX and for AIX on an RS/6000.</li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><strong>umapfile.h, umapfile.c</strong>: functions for mapping or
|
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otherwise reading or loading files into memory. All access by ICU to data
|
|
from files makes use of these functions.<br>
|
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<br>
|
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</li>
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|
|
<li>Using platform specific #ifdef macros are highly discouraged outside
|
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of the scope of these files. When the source code gets updated in the
|
|
future, these #ifdef's can cause testing problems for your platform.</li>
|
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="PlatformDependenciesBuildOrder" href=
|
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"#PlatformDependenciesBuildOrder">Build Order Without Using ICU's
|
|
Makefiles</a></h3>
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|
<p>It is possible to build each library individually without our Makefiles.
|
|
They must be built in the following order:<br>
|
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</p>
|
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<ol>
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<li>stubdata</li>
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|
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<li>common</li>
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|
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<li>i18n</li>
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|
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<li>toolutil</li>
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|
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<li>makeconv</li>
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|
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<li>gencnval</li>
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|
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<li>genprops</li>
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|
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<li>gennames</li>
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|
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<li>genpname</li>
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<li>gennorm</li>
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<li>genidna</li>
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<li>genbrk</li>
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|
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<li>genuca</li>
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<li>genrb</li>
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|
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<li>gentz</li>
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<li>genccode</li>
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|
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<li>gencmn</li>
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<li>pkgdata</li>
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|
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<li>makedata (a project on Windows, or source/data/Makefile on Unix)</li>
|
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|
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<li>layout (optional)</li>
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<li>layoutex (optional)</li>
|
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|
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<li>ctestfw, intltest and cintltst, if you want to run the test
|
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suite.</li>
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<li>uconv and ustdio can also be optionally built.</li>
|
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</ol>
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<hr>
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and others. All Rights Reserved.<br>
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