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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br>
<abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 3.4
ReadMe</h1>
<p>Version: 2005-September-15<br>
Copyright © 1997-2005 International Business Machines Corporation and
others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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<h2 class="TOC">Table of Contents</h2>
<ul class="TOC">
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#GettingStarted">Getting Started</a></li>
<li><a href="#News">What Is New In This release?</a></li>
<li><a href="#Download">How To Download the Source Code</a></li>
<li><a href="#SourceCode">ICU Source Code Organization</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#HowToBuild">How To Build And Install ICU</a>
<ul class="TOC">
<li><a href="#HowToBuildSupported">Supported Platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildWindows">Windows</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildCygwin">Cygwin</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildUNIX">UNIX</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildZOS">z/OS (os/390)</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildOS400">i5/OS (OS/400 iSeries)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#HowToPackage">How To Package ICU</a></li>
<li>
<a href="#ImportantNotes">Important Notes About Using ICU</a>
<ul class="TOC">
<li><a href="#ImportantNotesMultithreaded">Using ICU in a Multithreaded
Environment</a></li>
<li><a href="#ImportantNotesWindows">Windows Platform</a></li>
<li><a href="#ImportantNotesUNIX">UNIX Type Platforms</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#PlatformDependencies">Platform Dependencies</a>
<ul class="TOC">
<li><a href="#PlatformDependenciesNew">Porting To A New
Platform</a></li>
<li><a href="#PlatformDependenciesImpl">Platform Dependent
Implementations</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2><a name="Introduction" href="#Introduction" id=
"Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
<p>Today's software market is a global one in which it is desirable to
develop and maintain one application (single source/single binary) that
supports a wide variety of languages. The International Components for
Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services
on a wide variety of platforms to help this design goal. The ICU libraries
provide support for:</p>
<ul>
<li>The latest version of the Unicode standard</li>
<li>Character set conversions with support for over 200 codepages</li>
<li>Locale data for more than 230 locales</li>
<li>Language sensitive text collation (sorting) and searching based on
the Unicode Collation Algorithm (=ISO 14651)</li>
<li>Regular expression matching and Unicode sets</li>
<li>Transformations for normalization, upper/lowercase, script
transliterations (50+ pairs)</li>
<li>Resource bundles for storing and accessing localized information</li>
<li>Date/Number/Message formatting and parsing of culture specific
input/output formats</li>
<li>Calendar specific date and time manipulation</li>
<li>Complex text layout for Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and Thai</li>
<li>Text boundary analysis for finding characters, word and sentence
boundaries</li>
</ul>
<p>ICU has a sister project ICU4J that extends the internationalization
capabilities of Java to a level similar to ICU. The ICU C/C++ project is
also called ICU4C when a distinction is necessary.</p>
<h2><a name="GettingStarted" href="#GettingStarted" id=
"GettingStarted">Getting started</a></h2>
<p>This document describes how to build and install ICU on your machine.
For other information about ICU please see the following table of
links.<br>
The ICU homepage also links to related information about writing
internationalized software.</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" width="100%" summary=
"These are some useful links regarding ICU and internationalization in general.">
<caption>
Here are some useful links regarding ICU and internationalization in
general.
</caption>
<tr>
<td>ICU, ICU4C, ICU4J & ICU4JNI Official Homepage</td>
<td><a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp">http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ICU, ICU4C, ICU4J & ICU4JNI Unofficial Homepage</td>
<td><a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/">http://icu.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about ICU</td>
<td><a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icufaq.html">http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icufaq.html</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ICU User's Guide</td>
<td><a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/">http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Download ICU Releases</td>
<td><a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp">http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>API Documentation Online</td>
<td><a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/index.html">http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/index.html</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Online ICU Demos</td>
<td><a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/chartsdemostools.jsp">http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/chartsdemostools.jsp</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Contacts and Bug Reports/Feature Requests</td>
<td><a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/contacts.html">http://icu.sourceforge.net/contacts.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> Please make sure you understand the <a href=
"license.html">Copyright and License Information</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="News" href="#News" id="News">What is new in this
release?</a></h2>
<p>The following list concentrates on <em>changes that affect existing
applications migrating from previous ICU releases</em>. For more news about
this release, see the <a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp">ICU 3.4
download page</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="News_u_init" id="News_u_init">Changes to thread safety
initialization and data loading</a></h3>
<p>Previously, in order to ensure that ICU was thread safe, applications
had to use u_init() before using ICU in multiple threads. This requirement
is no longer needed. Please refer to the readme section called <a
href="#ImportantNotesMultithreaded">Using ICU in a Multithreaded
Environment</a> for details.</p>
<h3><a name="News_data_package" id="News_data_package">Source download contains .dat package for
ICU data</a></h3>
<p>The ICU4C 3.4 source downloads contain a pre-built .dat package with
ICU's data rather than the data source files. This is to simplify the build
process for the majority of users and to reduce platform porting issues. If
you need the data source files for customization, then please download the
ICU source code from <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/repository.jsp">CVS</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="Download" href="#Download" id="Download">How To Download the
Source Code</a></h2>
<p>There are two ways to download ICU releases:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Official Release Snapshot:</strong><br>
If you want to use ICU (as opposed to developing it), you should
download an official packaged version of the ICU source code. These
versions are tested more thoroughly than day-to-day development builds of
the system, and they are packaged in zip and tar files for convenient
download. These packaged files can be found at <a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp">http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp</a>.<br>
The packaged snapshots are named <strong>icu-nnnn.zip</strong> or
<strong>icu-nnnn.tgz</strong>, where nnnn is the version number. The .zip
file is used for Windows platforms, while the .tgz file is preferred on
most other platforms.<br>
Please unzip this file. It will reconstruct the source directory, which
includes anonymous CVS control directories (see below).</li>
<li><strong>CVS Source Repository:</strong><br>
If you are interested in developing features, patches, or bug fixes for
ICU, you should probably be working with the latest version of the ICU
source code. You will need to check the code out of our CVS repository to
ensure that you have the most recent version of all of the files. See our
<a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/repository.jsp">CVS
page</a> for details.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="SourceCode" href="#SourceCode" id="SourceCode">ICU Source Code
Organization</a></h2>
<p>In the descriptions below, <strong><i><ICU></i></strong> is the
full path name of the ICU directory (the top level directory from the
distribution archives) in your file system. You can also view the <a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/design.html">ICU Architectural
Design</a> section of the User's Guide to see which libraries you need for
your software product. You need at least the data (<code>[lib]icudt</code>)
and the common (<code>[lib]icuuc</code>) libraries in order to use ICU.</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" summary=
"The following files describe the code drop.">
<caption>
The following files describe the code drop.
</caption>
<tr>
<th scope="col">File</th>
<th scope="col">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>readme.html</td>
<td>Describes the International Components for Unicode (this file)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>license.html</td>
<td>Contains the text of the ICU license</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><br>
</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" summary=
"The following directories contain source code and data files.">
<caption>
The following directories contain source code and data files.
</caption>
<tr>
<th scope="col">Directory</th>
<th scope="col">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>common</b>/</td>
<td>The core Unicode and support functionality, such as resource
bundles, character properties, locales, codepage conversion,
normalization, Unicode properties, Locale, and UnicodeString.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>i18n</b>/</td>
<td>Modules in i18n are generally the more data-driven, that is to say
resource bundle driven, components. These deal with higher-level
internationalization issues such as formatting, collation, text break
analysis, and transliteration.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>data</b>/</td>
<td>
<p>This directory contains the source data in text format, which is
compiled into binary form during the ICU build process. It contains
several subdirectories, in which the data files are grouped by
function. Note that the build process must be run again after any
changes are made to this directory.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>brkitr/</b> Data files for character, word, sentence, title
casing and line boundary analysis.</li>
<li><b>locales/</b> These .txt files contain ICU language and
culture-specific localization data. Two special bundles are
<b>root</b>, which is the fallback data and parent of other
bundles, and <b>index</b>, which contains a list of installed
bundles. The makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b> contains the list of
resource bundle files.</li>
<li><b>mappings/</b> Here are the code page converter tables. These
.ucm files contain mappings to and from Unicode. These are compiled
into .cnv files. <b>convrtrs.txt</b> is the alias mapping table
from various converter name formats to ICU internal format and vice
versa. It produces cnvalias.icu. The makefiles <b>ucmfiles.mk,
ucmcore.mk,</b> and <b>ucmebcdic.mk</b> contain the list of
converters to be built.</li>
<li><b>translit/</b> This directory contains transliterator rules
as resource bundles, a makefile <b>trnsfiles.mk</b> containing the
list of installed system translitaration files, and as well the
special bundle <b>translit_index</b> which lists the system
transliterator aliases.</li>
<li><b>unidata/</b> This directory contains the Unicode data files.
Please see <a href=
"http://www.unicode.org/">http://www.unicode.org/</a> for more
information.</li>
<li><b>misc/</b> The misc directory contains other data files which
did not fit into the above categories. Currently it only contains
time zone information, and a name preperation file for <a href=
"http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt">IDNA</a>.</li>
<li><b>out/</b> This directory contains the assembled memory mapped
files.</li>
<li><b>out/build/</b> This directory contains intermediate
(compiled) files, such as .cnv, .res, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are creating a special ICU build, you can set the ICU_DATA
environment variable to the out/ or the out/build/ directories, but
this is generally discouraged because most people set it incorrectly.
You can view the <a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icudata.html">ICU Data
Management</a> section of the ICU User's Guide for details.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>intltest</b>/</td>
<td>A test suite including all C++ APIs. For information about running
the test suite, see the users' guide.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>cintltst</b>/</td>
<td>A test suite written in C, including all C APIs. For information
about running the test suite, see the users' guide.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<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
<b>testdata.dat.</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>tools</b>/</td>
<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>include</b>/</td>
<td>Contains the headers needed for developing software that uses ICU
on Windows.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>lib</b>/</td>
<td>Contains the import libraries for linking ICU into your Windows
application.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>bin</b>/</td>
<td>Contains the libraries and executables for using ICU on
Windows.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<h2><a name="HowToBuild" href="#HowToBuild" id="HowToBuild">How To Build
And Install ICU</a></h2>
<h3><a name="HowToBuildSupported" href="#HowToBuildSupported" id=
"HowToBuildSupported">Supported Platforms</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" summary=
"ICU can be built on many platforms.">
<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 XP</td>
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 (7.1)</td>
<td>Reference platform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 4</td>
<td>gcc 3.2.3</td>
<td>Reference platform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AIX 5.2</td>
<td>Visual Age C++ 6.0</td>
<td>Reference platform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9)</td>
<td>Sun Studio 8 (Sun C++ 5.5)</td>
<td>Reference platform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>HP-UX 11.11</td>
<td>aCC A.03.50<br>
cc B.11.11.08</td>
<td>Reference platform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Red Hat Linux 7.2</td>
<td>gcc 2.96</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Red Hat Linux 9.0</td>
<td>gcc 3.2.2</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Windows 2000/XP with Cygwin</td>
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Windows XP with Cygwin</td>
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2002 (7.0)</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mac OS X (10.4)</td>
<td>gcc 4.0.1</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7)</td>
<td>Workshop Pro (Forte) CC 6.0</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>AIX 5.1.0 L</td>
<td>Visual Age C++ 5.0</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>i5/OS (OS/400 iSeries) V5R3</td>
<td>iCC</td>
<td>Regularly tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>z/OS 1.4</td>
<td>cxx 1.4</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP1</td>
<td>Intel C++ Compiler 8.1</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (PowerPC)</td>
<td>Visual Age 7.0</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Windows 98</td>
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cygwin</td>
<td>gcc 2.95.3</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MinGW</td>
<td>gcc</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD</td>
<td>gcc</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>QNX</td>
<td>gcc</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BeOS</td>
<td>gcc</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SGI/IRIX</td>
<td>MIPSpro CC</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tru64 (OSF)</td>
<td>Compaq's cxx compiler</td>
<td>Rarely tested</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MP-RAS</td>
<td>NCR MP-RAS C/C++ 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" id=
"HowToBuildWindows">How To Build And Install On Windows</a></h3>
<p>Building International Components for Unicode requires:</p>
<ul>
<li>Microsoft Windows 2000 or above</li>
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ 2003</li>
<li><a href="#HowToBuildCygwin">Cygwin</a> is required when other
versions of Microsoft Visual C++ and other compilers are used to build
ICU.</li>
</ul>
<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>Open the "<i><ICU></i>\source\allinone\allinone.sln" workspace
file in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. (This solution includes all
the International Components for Unicode libraries, necessary ICU
building tools, and the test suite projects). Please see the <a href=
"#HowToBuildWindowsCommandLine">command line note below</a> if you want
to build from the command line instead.</li>
<li>Set the active configuration to "Debug" or "Release" (See <a href=
"#HowToBuildWindowsConfig">Windows configuration note</a> below).</li>
<li>Choose the "Build" menu and select "Rebuild Solution". If you want to
build the Debug and Release at the same time, see the <a href=
"#HowToBuildWindowsBatch">batch configuration note</a> below.</li>
<li>Run the C++ test suite, "intltest". To do this: set the active
startup project to "intltest", and press Ctrl+F5 to run it. Make sure
that it passes without any errors.</li>
<li>Run the C test suite, "cintltst". To do this: set the active startup
project to "cintltst", and press Ctrl+F5 to run it. Make sure that it
passes without any errors.</li>
<li>Run the I/O test suite, "iotest". To do this: set the active startup
project to "iotest", and press Ctrl+F5 to run it. Make sure that it
passes without any errors.</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" id=
"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, 'devenv.com
<i><ICU></i>\source\allinone\allinone.sln /build Release'. You can
also use Cygwin with this compiler to build ICU, and you can refer to the
<a href="#HowToBuildCygwin">How To Build And Install On Windows with
Cygwin</a> section for more details.</p>
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsConfig" id=
"HowToBuildWindowsConfig"><strong>Setting Active Configuration
Note:</strong></a> To set the active configuration, two different
possibilities are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose "Build" menu, select "Configuration Manager...", and select
"Release" or "Debug" for the Active Configuration Solution.</li>
<li>Another way is to select the desired build configuration from
"Solution Configurations" dropdown menu from the standard toolbar. It
will say "Release" or "Debug" in the dropdown list.</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="HowToBuildWindowsBatch" id=
"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...". Click the "Select All"
button, and then click the "Rebuild" button.</p>
<h3><a name="HowToBuildCygwin" href="#HowToBuildCygwin" id=
"HowToBuildCygwin">How To Build And Install On Windows with Cygwin</a></h3>
<p>Building International Components for Unicode with this configuration
requires:</p>
<ul>
<li>Microsoft NT 4.0 or above, or Windows 98 or above</li>
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or above (when gcc isn't used).</li>
<li>
Cygwin with the following installed:
<ul>
<li>bash</li>
<li>GNU make</li>
<li>man (if you plan to look at the man pages)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>There are two ways you can build ICU with Cygwin. You can build with gcc
or Microsoft Visual C++. If you use gcc, the resulting libraries and tools
will depend on the Cygwin environment. If you use Microsoft Visual C++, the
resulting libraries and tools do not depend on Cygwin and can be more
easily distributed to other Windows computers (the generated man pages and
shell scripts still need Cygwin). To build with gcc, please follow the "<a
href="#HowToBuildUNIX">How To Build And Install On UNIX</a>" instructions,
while you are inside a Cygwin bash shell. To build with Microsoft Visual
C++, please use the following instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Start the Windows "Command Prompt" window. This is different from the
gcc build, which requires the Cygwin Bash command prompt. The Microsoft
Visual C++ compiler will not work with a bash command prompt.</li>
<li>If the computer isn't set up to use Visual C++ from the command line,
you need to run VCVARS32.BAT (for example: "<tt>C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT</tt>").</li>
<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>Change directory to "icu/source", which is where you unzipped
ICU.</li>
<li>Run "<tt>bash <a href="source/runConfigureICU">./runConfigureICU</a>
Cygwin/MSVC</tt>" (See <a href="#HowToWindowsConfigureICU">Windows
configuration note</a> and non-functional configure options below).</li>
<li>Type <tt>"make"</tt> to compile the libraries and all the data files.
This make command should be GNU make.</li>
<li>Optionally, type <tt>"make check"</tt> to run the test suite, which
checks for ICU's functionality integrity (See <a href=
"#HowToTestWithoutGmake">testing note</a> below).</li>
<li>Type <tt>"make 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">installation note</a> below).</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="HowToWindowsConfigureICU" id=
"HowToWindowsConfigureICU"><strong>Configuring ICU on Windows
NOTE:</strong></a> In addition to the Unix <a href=
"#HowToConfigureICU">configuration note</a> the following configure options
currently do not work on Windows with Microsoft's compiler. Some options
can work by manually editing <tt>icu/source/common/unicode/pwin32.h</tt>,
but manually editing the files is not recommended.</p>
<ul>
<li><tt>--disable-renaming</tt></li>
<li><tt>--disable-threading</tt></li>
<li><tt>--disable-tracing</tt></li>
<li><tt>--enable-64bit-libs</tt></li>
<li><tt>--enable-rpath</tt></li>
<li><tt>--with-iostream</tt></li>
<li><tt>--enable-static</tt> (Requires that U_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION be
defined in user code that links against ICU's static libraries.)</li>
<li><tt>--with-data-packaging=files</tt> (The pkgdata tool currently does
not work in this mode. Manual packaging is required to use this
mode.)</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="HowToBuildUNIX" href="#HowToBuildUNIX" id="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">configuration
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">testing 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">installation note</a> below).</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="HowToConfigureICU" id="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 regarding HP-UX multithreaded build issues</a>
with newer compilers. Solaris user's, please see this <a href=
"#ImportantNotesSolaris">note regarding Solaris multithreaded build
issues</a>.</p>
<p><a name="HowToTestWithoutGmake" id=
"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
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" id="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" id="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 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/redbook/">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>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/redbook/">z/OS UNIX
- Tools and Toys</a>.</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. ICU requires the same GNU make as described in
the UNIX build instructions.</li>
<li>Since USS does not support using the mmap() function over NFS, it is
recommended that you build ICU on a local filesystem. Once ICU has been
built, you should not have this problem while using ICU when the data
library has been built as a shared library, which is this is the default
setting.</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>z/OS supports both native S/390 hexadecimal floating point and (with
OS/390 2.6 and later) IEEE 754 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=0 will
cause the z/OS version of ICU to be built without IEEE floating point
support and use the native hexadecimal floating point. By default ICU is
built with IEEE 754 support. Native floating point support is sufficient
for codepage conversion, resource bundle and UnicodeString operations,
but the Format APIs require IEEE binary floating point.</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, which is enabled for z/OS 1.2 and later, requires the
PTF PQ69418 to build XPLINK enabled binaries.</p>
</li>
<li>Currently in ICU 3.0, there is an issue with building on z/OS without
XPLINK and with the C++ iostream. By default, the iostream library on
z/OS is XPLINK enabled. If you are not building an XPLINK enabled version
of ICU, you should use the <code>--with-iostream=old</code> configure
option when using runConfigureICU. This will prevent applications that
use the icuio library from crashing.</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, but you may need to deliver binaries on z/OS 1.2 and above.
z/OS gives you this ability by targeting 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, "<code>./runConfigureICU OS390V2R10</code>"</p>
<p>To set the compiler and LE environment to z/OS 1.2 specify the
following, "<code>./runConfigureICU zOSV1R2</code>"</p>
</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 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>IN --> libicui18n<i>XX</i>.dll
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" id=
"HowToBuildOS400">How To Build And Install On i5/OS (OS/400
iSeries)</a></h3>
<p>Before you start building ICU, ICU requires the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>QSHELL interpreter installed (install base option 30, operating
system)
<!--li>QShell Utilities, PRPQ 5799-XEH (not required for V4R5)</li--></li>
<li>ILE C/C++ Compiler for iSeries, LPP 5722-WDS</li>
<li>The latest GNU facilities (You can get the GNU facilities for i5/OS
from <a href=
"http://www.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/gnu_utilities.html">
http://www.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/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 build
instructions</a>.</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.
<pre>
<samp>CRTLIB LIB(<i>libraryname</i>)</samp>
</pre>
</li>
<li>
Set up the following environment variables in your build process (use
the <i>libraryname</i> from the previous step). The <i>libraryname</i>
identifies target as400 library for *module, *pgm and *srvpgm objects.
<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>
</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).</li>
<li>Run unpax-icu.sh on the tar file generated from the previous step.</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 icu-support mailing list for help.</li>
<li>Run <tt>'cp ../as_is/os400/configure .'</tt></li>
<li>Run <tt>'./configure'</tt></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" id="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 use "<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 the <a
href="#HowToBuildUNIX">UNIX build instructions</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 with 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://icu.sourceforge.net/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>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" summary=
"ICU has several libraries for you to use.">
<caption>
Here is an example of libraries that are frequently packaged.
</caption>
<tr>
<th scope="col">Library Name</th>
<th scope="col">Windows Filename</th>
<th scope="col">Linux Filename</th>
<th scope="col">Comment</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Data Library</td>
<td>icudt<i>XY</i>l.dll</td>
<td>libicudata.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
<td>Data required by the Common and I18n libraries. There are many ways
to package and <a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icudata.html">customize this
data</a>, but by default this is all you need.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Common Library</td>
<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>A library that contains many locale based internationalization
(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>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>An optional engine for doing font layout that uses parts of
ICU.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ICU I/O (Unicode stdio) Library</td>
<td>icuio<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
<td>libicuio.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
<td>An optional library that provides a stdio like API with Unicode
support.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tool Utility Library</td>
<td>icutu<i>XY</i>.dll</td>
<td>libicutu.so.<i>XY</i>.<i>Z</i></td>
<td>An internal library that contains internal APIs that are only used
by ICU's tools. If you do not use ICU's tools, you do not need this
library.</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" id=
"ImportantNotes">Important Notes About Using ICU</a></h2>
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesMultithreaded" href="#ImportantNotesMultithreaded" id=
"ImportantNotesMultithreaded">Using ICU in a Multithreaded Environment</a></h3>
<p>Some versions of ICU require calling the <code>u_init()</code> function
from <code>uclean.h</code> to ensure that ICU is initialized properly. In
those ICU versions, <code>u_init()</code> must be called before ICU is used
from multiple threads. There is no harm in calling <code>u_init()</code> in
a single-threaded application, on a single-CPU machine, or in other cases
where <code>u_init()</code> is not required.</p>
<p>In addition to ensuring thread safety, <code>u_init()</code> also
attempts to load at least one ICU data file. Assuming that all data files
are packaged together (or are in the same folder in files mode), a failure
code from <code>u_init()</code> usually means that the data cannot be
found. In this case, the data may not be installed properly, or the
application may have failed to call <code>udata_setCommonData()</code> or
<code>u_setDataDirectory()</code> which specify to ICU where it can find
its data.</p>
<p>Since <code>u_init()</code> will load only one or two data files, it
cannot guarantee that all of the data that an application needs is
available. It cannot check for all data files because the set of files is
customizable, and some ICU services work without loading any data at all.
An application should always check for error codes when opening ICU service
objects (using <code>ucnv_open()</code>, <code>ucol_open()</code>, C++
constructors, etc.).</p>
<h4>ICU 3.4 and later</h4>
<p>ICU 3.4 self-initializes properly for multi-threaded use. It achieves
this without performance penalty by hardcoding the core Unicode properties
data, at the cost of some flexibility. (For details see Jitterbug
4497.)</p>
<p><code>u_init()</code> can be used to check for data loading. It tries to
load the converter alias table (<code>cnvalias.icu</code>).</p>
<h4>ICU 2.6..3.2</h4>
<p>These ICU versions require a call to <code>u_init()</code> before
multi-threaded use. The services that are directly affected are those that
don't have a service object and need to be fast: normalization and
character properties.</p>
<p><code>u_init()</code> loads and initializes the data files for
normalization and character properties (<code>unorm.icu</code> and
<code>uprops.icu</code>) and can therefore also be used to check for data
loading.</p>
<h4>ICU 2.4 and earlier</h4>
<p>ICU 2.4 and earlier versions were not prepared for multithreaded use on
multi-CPU platforms where the CPUs implement weak memory coherency. These
CPUs include: Power4, Power5, Alpha, Itanium. <code>u_init()</code> was not
defined yet.</p>
<h4><a name="ImportantNotesHPUX" href="#ImportantNotesHPUX" id=
"ImportantNotesHPUX">Using ICU in a Multithreaded Environment on
HP-UX</a></h4>
<p>If you are building ICU with a newer aCC compiler and you are planning
on using the older <iostream.h> instead of the newer
<iostream>, you will need to use a special configure flag before
building ICU. By default, the aCC <a href=
"http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/dev/aCC/a_03_30/options.htm#optioncap-AA">
-AA</a> flag is used on HP-UX when the compiler supports that option in
order to make ICU thread safe with RogueWave and other libraries using the
2.0 Standard C++ library. Your applications that use ICU will also need to
use the <a href=
"http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/dev/aCC/a_03_30/options.htm#optioncap-AA">
-AA</a> compiler flag. To turn off this behavior in ICU, you will need to
use the --with-iostream= old configure option when you first use
runConfigureICU.</p>
<h4><a name="ImportantNotesSolaris" href="#ImportantNotesSolaris" id=
"ImportantNotesSolaris">Using ICU in a Multithreaded Environment on
Solaris</a></h4>
<h5>ICU's tests may hang on Solaris 8 and Earlier</h5>
<p>ICU's tests use <code>usleep()</code>, which is multithread unsafe on
versions of Solaris before version 9. This does not mean that ICU is not
thread safe because only ICU's test code uses <code>usleep()</code>. The
<code>sleep()</code> and <code>nanosleep()</code> functions could be used
in ICU's multithreaded tests, but <code>sleep()</code> and
<code>nanosleep()</code> are not a stable API between versions of Solaris.
Solaris 9 fixes usleep so that it is multithread safe.</p>
<p>This hanging behavior tends to appear on multi-CPU machines. Single CPU
Solaris 8 machines do not seem to show this behavior.</p>
<p>In a future version of ICU, we hope to find a portable solution to this
problem that will work between the modern versions of Solaris.</p>
<h5>Solaris Deadlock Issues in Solaris 8 (2.8) and Earlier</h5>
<p>Solaris 8, and earlier, has outstanding thread deadlocking issues that
<strong>may</strong> be problematic for applications using either native,
or POSIX, threading on these platforms. Sun states that Solaris 9
<strong>does not</strong> have the deadlock problems. Deadlocks
<strong>may</strong> occur either during initialization of the Solaris
threading library, or at any other time.</p>
<p>Sun Microsystems has provided a Sun Alert Notification regarding the
issue. Users <strong>should</strong> consider applying the latest OS
patches to their Solaris installations in order to help avoid deadlock.
Further information regarding the issue, and links to applicable patches,
may be found at:</p>
<p>[1] "<i>Applications Linked to libthread May Hang</i>", Sun Alert
Notification, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 04-Sep-2002<br>
<a href=
"http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F46867&zone_32=4663077">
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F46867&zone_32=4663077</a></p>
<p>Sun is <strong>not</strong> providing patches for Solaris 6 (2.6), or
earlier.</p>
<p>Sun states that by applying the patch users will avoid the deadlock
issues. However, with all applicable patches applied, deadlock
<strong>may</strong> still be seen, as demonstrated by the ICU Mutex unit
tests. The unit test will hang indefinitely. No bug exists in ICU. However,
a latent bug still exists in Solaris, which Sun Microsystems has yet to
resolve. In order to avoid this, users are <strong>suggested</strong> to
modify their LD_LIBRARY_PATH according to the guidelines specified by Sun
Microsystems in the Sun Alert Notification.</p>
<h5>Linking on Solaris</h5>
<p>In order to avoid synchronization and threading issues, developers are
<strong>suggested</strong> to strictly follow the compiling and linking
guidelines for multithreaded applications, specified in the following
document from Sun Microsystems. Most notably, pay strict attention to the
following statements from Sun:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>To use libthread, specify -lthread before -lc on the ld command line,
or last on the cc command line.</p>
<p>To use libpthread, specify -lpthread before -lc on the ld command
line, or last on the cc command line.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Failure to do this may cause spurious lock conflicts, recursive mutex
failure, and deadlock.</p>
<p>[2] "<i>Solaris Multithreaded Programming Guide, Compiling and
Debugging</i>", Sun Microsystems, Inc., Apr 2004<br>
<a href=
"http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-6867/6jfpgdcob?a=view">http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-6867/6jfpgdcob?a=view</a></p>
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesWindows" href="#ImportantNotesWindows" id=
"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" id=
"ImportantNotesWindowsPath">Changing your PATH</a></h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Windows 2000/XP</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 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" id=
"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" id=
"PlatformDependencies">Platform Dependencies</a></h2>
<h3><a name="PlatformDependenciesNew" href="#PlatformDependenciesNew" id=
"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 <a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/contacts.html">icu-support mailing list</a>.
Once you have finished porting ICU to a new platform, it is recommended
that you contribute your changes back to ICU via the icu-support mailing
list. This will make it easier for everyone to benefit from your work.</p>
<h4>Data For a New Platform</h4>
<p>For some people, it may not be necessary for completely build ICU. Most
of the makefiles and build targets are for tools that are used for building
ICU's data, and an application's data (when an application uses ICU
resource bundles for its data).</p>
<p>Data files can be built on a different platform when both platforms
share the same endianness and the same charset family. This assertion does
not include platform dependent DLLs/shared/static libraries. For details
see the User Guide <a href=
"http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icudata.html">ICU Data</a>
chapter.</p>
<p>ICU 2.8 removes the requirement that ICU be completely built in the
native operating environment. It adds the icuswap tool which can be run on
any platform to turn binary ICU data files from any one of the three
formats into any one of the other data formats. This allows a application
to use ICU data built anywhere to be used for any other target
platform.</p>
<p><strong>WARNING!</strong> Building ICU without running the tests is not
recommended. The tests verify that ICU is safe to use. It is recommended
that you try to completely port and test ICU before using the libraries for
your own application.</p>
<h4>Adapting Makefiles For a New Platform</h4>
<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>
<li>Modify icu/source/configure.in to properly set your <b>platform</b> C
Macro define.</li>
<li>Run <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">autoconf</a> in
icu/source/ without any options. The autoconf tool is standard on most
Linux systems.</li>
<li>If you have any optimization options that you want to normally use,
you can modify icu/source/runConfigureICU to specify those options for
your platform.</li>
<li>Build and test ICU on your platform. It is very important that you
run the tests. If you don't run the tests, there is no guarentee that you
have properly ported ICU.</li>
</ol>
<h3><a name="PlatformDependenciesImpl" href="#PlatformDependenciesImpl" id=
"PlatformDependenciesImpl">Platform Dependent Implementations</a></h3>
<p>The platform dependencies have been mostly isolated into the following
files in the common library. This information can be useful if you are
porting ICU to a new platform.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>unicode/platform.h.in</strong> (autoconf'ed platforms)<br>
<strong>unicode/p<i>XXXX</i>.h</strong> (others: pwin32.h, pmacos.h,
..): Platform-dependent typedefs and defines:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>XP_CPLUSPLUS for C++ only.</li>
<li>Generic types like UBool, int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, int64_t,
uint64_t etc.</li>
<li>U_EXPORT and U_IMPORT for specifying dynamic library import and
export</li>
<li><iostream> usability</li>
</ul>
<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>unicode/putil.h, putil.c</strong>: platform-dependent
implementations of various functions that are platform dependent:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>uprv_isNaN, uprv_isInfinite, uprv_getNaN and uprv_getInfinity for
handling special floating point values.</li>
<li>uprv_tzset, uprv_timezone, uprv_tzname and time for getting
platform specific time and time zone information.</li>
<li>u_getDataDirectory for getting the default data directory.</li>
<li>uprv_getDefaultLocaleID for getting the default locale
setting.</li>
<li>uprv_getDefaultCodepage for getting the default codepage
encoding.</li>
</ul>
<br>
</li>
<li>
<strong>umutex.h, umutex.c</strong>: Code for doing synchronization in
multithreaded applications. If you wish to use International Components
for Unicode in a multithreaded application, you must provide a
synchronization primitive that the classes can use to protect their
global data against simultaneous modifications. See Users' guide for
more information.<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>We supply sample implementations for Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux,
AIX, HP-UX, BSD, Mac OS X, z/OS and many others.</li>
</ul>
<br>
</li>
<li><strong>umapfile.h, umapfile.c</strong>: functions for mapping or
otherwise reading or loading files into memory. All access by ICU to data
from files makes use of these functions.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Using platform specific #ifdef macros are highly discouraged outside
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>
</ul>
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