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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br />
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<abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 3.8
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ReadMe</h1>
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<p>Version: 2007 September 4<br />
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Copyright © 1997-2007 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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<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="#HowToBuildCygwin">Cygwin</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">i5/OS (OS/400 iSeries)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#HowToPackage">How To Package ICU</a></li>
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<a href="#ImportantNotes">Important Notes About Using ICU</a>
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<li><a href="#ImportantNotesMultithreaded">Using ICU in a Multithreaded
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Environment</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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<h2><a name="Introduction" href="#Introduction" id=
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"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 on
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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 220 codepages</li>
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<li>Locale data for more than 250 locales</li>
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<li>Language sensitive text collation (sorting) and searching based on the
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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 ICU4J that extends the internationalization
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capabilities of Java to a level similar to ICU. The ICU C/C++ project is also
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called ICU4C when a distinction is necessary.</p>
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<h2><a name="GettingStarted" href="#GettingStarted" id=
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"GettingStarted">Getting started</a></h2>
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<p>This document describes how to build and install ICU on your machine. For
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other information about ICU please see the following table of 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, ICU4C & ICU4J Homepage</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://www.icu-project.org/">http://www.icu-project.org/</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://www.icu-project.org/userguide/icufaq.html">http://www.icu-project.org/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://www.icu-project.org/userguide/">http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/</a></td>
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<td>Download ICU Releases</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://www.icu-project.org/download/">http://www.icu-project.org/download/</a></td>
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<td>ICU4C API Documentation Online</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/">http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/</a></td>
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<td>Online ICU Demos</td>
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<td><a href=
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"http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/icudemos">http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/icudemos</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://www.icu-project.org/contacts.html">http://www.icu-project.org/contacts.html</a></td>
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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" id="News">What is new in this
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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="http://www.icu-project.org/download/">ICU 3.8
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download page</a>.</p>
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<h3><a name="News_app_packaging" id="News_app_packaging">Changes to packaging
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resource bundles</a></h3>
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<p>Since ICU 3.0, the old style of packaging was deprecated, and an alternate
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packaging mode was made available. In this release, this compatibility mode
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of packaging has been removed from ICU. If you're using the genrb -P or -t
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options, you are probably using the older compatible mode of data packaging.
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This compatibility file naming mode was removed for portability and
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performance reasons.</p>
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<p>Code changes should not be required to use the newer data file naming
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scheme, but you will need to update your makefile scripts, if you're using
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the older data file naming scheme. The example of using the new data file
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naming scheme can be found in <a href="source/samples/ufortune/">the ufortune
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sample program</a>.</p>
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The following are examples of the file naming schemes.
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<th scope="col">Old File Naming Scheme</th>
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<th scope="col">Current File Naming Scheme</th>
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<td>MyApp_root.res</td>
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<td>MyApp/root.res</td>
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<td>MyApp_en.res</td>
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<td>MyApp/en.res</td>
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<h3><a name="News_wchar_t" id="News_wchar_t">Changes to wchar_t type for the
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Microsoft Visual Studio builds</a></h3>
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<p>Previous versions of ICU built with Microsoft Visual Studio were not built
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with the /Zc:wchar_t compiler option. ICU now builds with this option turned
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on by default. This allows the built libraries to be compatible with Visual
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Studio 2005, and this makes it easier for ICU users to use MFC in their
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projects, which requires this option to be turned by default. If you do not
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use the C++ API of ICU, you are not affected by this change.</p>
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<p>If you receive any errors while linking ICU into your project, please make
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sure that you have set "Treat wchar_t as Built-in Type" to "Yes
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(/Zc:wchar_t)" in your project files.</p>
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<h3><a name="News_scanf" id="News_scanf">Changes to scanf and storing
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floating point types</a></h3>
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<p>In order to improve interoperability with standard scanf implementations,
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the icuio library's implementations of scanf has changed the default scanf
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type from <tt>double</tt> to <tt>float</tt>. This is a breaking change
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requires you to change your code if you are using the icuio library's scanf
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to read <tt>double</tt> or <tt>float</tt> values with %e, %f or %g. As a
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reminder, these scanf functions in the icuio library are still marked
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draft.</p>
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<h3><a name="News_data_package" id="News_data_package">Source download
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contains .dat package for ICU data</a></h3>
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<p>The ICU4C 3.8 source downloads contain a pre-built .dat package with ICU's
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data rather than the data source files. This is to simplify the build process
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for the majority of users and to reduce platform porting issues. If you need
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the data source files for customization, then please download the ICU source
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code from <a href="http://www.icu-project.org/repository/">subversion</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Download" href="#Download" id="Download">How To Download the
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Source 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 download
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an official packaged version of the ICU source code. These versions are
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tested more thoroughly than day-to-day development builds of the system,
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and they are packaged in zip and tar files for convenient download. These
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packaged files can be found at <a href=
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"http://www.icu-project.org/download/">http://www.icu-project.org/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://www.icu-project.org/repository/">source
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repository</a> for details.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="SourceCode" href="#SourceCode" id="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 full
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path name of the ICU directory (the top level directory from the distribution
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archives) in your file system. You can also view the <a href=
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"http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/design.html">ICU Architectural
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Design</a> section of the User's Guide to see which libraries you need for
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your software product. You need at least the data (<code>[lib]icudt</code>)
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and the common (<code>[lib]icuuc</code>) libraries in order to use ICU.</p>
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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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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>common</b>/</td>
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<td>The core Unicode and support functionality, such as resource bundles,
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character properties, locales, codepage conversion, normalization,
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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>layout</b>/</td>
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<td>Contains the ICU layout engine (not a rasterizer).</td>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>io</b>/</td>
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<td>Contains the ICU I/O library.</td>
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>data</b>/</td>
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<td>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>If some of the following directories are missing, it's probably
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because you got an official download. If you need the data source files
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for customization, then please download the ICU source code from <a
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href="http://www.icu-project.org/repository/">subversion</a>.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>in/</b> A directory that contains a pre-built data library for
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ICU. A standard source code package will contain this file without
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several of the following directories. This is to simplify the build
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process for the majority of users and to reduce platform porting
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issues.</li>
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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 bundles,
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and <b>index</b>, which contains a list of installed bundles. The
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makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b> contains the list of resource bundle
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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 from
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various converter name formats to ICU internal format and vice versa.
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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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<li><b>translit/</b> This directory contains transliterator rules as
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resource bundles, a makefile <b>trnsfiles.mk</b> containing the list
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of installed system translitaration files, and as well the special
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bundle <b>translit_index</b> which lists the system transliterator
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aliases.</li>
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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
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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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time zone information, and a name preperation file for <a href=
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"http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt">IDNA</a>.</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 (compiled)
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files, such as .cnv, .res, etc.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you are creating a special ICU build, you can set the ICU_DATA
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environment variable to the out/ or the out/build/ directories, but
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this is generally discouraged because most people set it incorrectly.
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You can view the <a href=
|
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"http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/icudata.html">ICU Data
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Management</a> section of the ICU User's Guide for details.</p>
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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 build instructions specific to your platform
|
|
later in this document.</td>
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</tr>
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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 build instructions specific to your
|
|
platform later in this document.</td>
|
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</tr>
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<tr>
|
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>iotest</b>/</td>
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|
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<td>A test suite written in C and C++ to test the icuio library. For
|
|
information about running the test suite, see the build instructions
|
|
specific to your platform later in this document.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/test/<b>testdata</b>/</td>
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|
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<td>Source text files for data, which are read by the tests. It contains
|
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the subdirectories <b>out/build/</b> which is used for intermediate
|
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files, and <b>out/</b> which contains <b>testdata.dat.</b></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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|
<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>
|
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</tr>
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>samples</b>/</td>
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|
|
<td>Various sample programs that use ICU</td>
|
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</tr>
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<tr>
|
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<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>extra</b>/</td>
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|
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<td>Non-supported API additions. Currently, it contains the 'uconv' tool
|
|
to perform codepage conversion on files.</td>
|
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</tr>
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|
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>packaging</b>/<br />
|
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<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>
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|
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/source/<b>config</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains helper makefiles for platform specific build commands. Used
|
|
by 'configure'.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
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<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>
|
|
|
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<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>
|
|
|
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<tr>
|
|
<td><i><ICU></i>/<b>bin</b>/</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Contains the libraries and executables for using ICU on Windows.</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</table>
|
|
<!-- end of ICU structure ==================================== -->
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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 2005 (8.0)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 4.1.1</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>AIX 5.3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Visual Age C++ 8.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Sun Studio 11 (Sun C++ 5.8)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>HP-UX 11.23 (IA64)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>aCC A.06.10</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Reference platform</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 3.4.4</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>AIX 5.2</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Visual Age C++ 6.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Sun Studio 8 (Sun C++ 5.5)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>HP-UX 11.11 (PA-RISC)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>aCC A.03.50<br />
|
|
cc B.11.11.08</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Windows 2000 with Cygwin</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 (7.1)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Windows Vista x86</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2005 (8.0)</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 10</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 4.0.3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP1</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Intel C++ Compiler 9.0</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Regularly tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>z/OS 1.7</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>cxx 1.7</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Cygwin</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>gcc 3.4.4</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>i5/OS (OS/400 iSeries) V5R3</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>iCC</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Rarely tested</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td>Windows Vista x64</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2005 (8.0)</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>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (PowerPC)</td>
|
|
|
|
<td>Visual Age 8.0</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 2000 or above</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 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 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat</tt>" can be used for 32-bit builds
|
|
<strong>or</strong> "<tt>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
|
|
8\VC\bin\amd64\vcvarsamd64.bat</tt>" can be used for 64-bit builds on
|
|
Windows x64.</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>--enable-tracing</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 (3.80+).</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. 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>The makedep and GNU make tools are required for building ICU. If it
|
|
is not already installed on your system, 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. Failure to add these
|
|
tools to your PATH will cause ICU build failures or cause pkgdata to fail
|
|
to run.</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>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. The XPLINK option, which is available for z/OS 1.2 and later,
|
|
requires the PTF PQ69418 to build XPLINK enabled binaries.</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>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 libicui18n<i>XX</i>.dll,
|
|
libicuuc<i>XX</i>.dll, and libicudt<i>XX</i>e.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</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. . . . . : <i>LOAD</i>
|
|
Organization . . . : PO
|
|
Record format . . . : U
|
|
Record length . . . : 0
|
|
Block size . . . . : <i>32760</i>
|
|
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 i5/OS 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.
|
|
<pre>
|
|
<samp>CRTLIB LIB(<i>libraryname</i>)
|
|
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>'./runConfigureICU i5OS'</tt> (See <a href="#HowToConfigureICU">configuration
|
|
note</a> for details).</li></li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'gmake'</tt> to build ICU.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Run <tt>'gmake check'</tt> to build and run 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/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/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://www.icu-project.org/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://www.icu-project.org/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
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libicuuc.so.20.2 for the common library. The exact format of the library
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names can vary between platforms due to how each platform can handles library
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versioning.</p>
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<h2><a name="ImportantNotes" href="#ImportantNotes" id=
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"ImportantNotes">Important Notes About Using ICU</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="ImportantNotesMultithreaded" href="#ImportantNotesMultithreaded"
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id="ImportantNotesMultithreaded">Using ICU in a Multithreaded
|
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Environment</a></h3>
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|
|
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<p>Some versions of ICU require calling the <code>u_init()</code> function
|
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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
|
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from multiple threads. There is no harm in calling <code>u_init()</code> in a
|
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single-threaded application, on a single-CPU machine, or in other cases where
|
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<code>u_init()</code> is not required.</p>
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|
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<p>In addition to ensuring thread safety, <code>u_init()</code> also attempts
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to load at least one ICU data file. Assuming that all data files are packaged
|
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together (or are in the same folder in files mode), a failure code from
|
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<code>u_init()</code> usually means that the data cannot be found. In this
|
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case, the data may not be installed properly, or the application may have
|
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failed to call <code>udata_setCommonData()</code> or
|
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<code>u_setDataDirectory()</code> which specify to ICU where it can find its
|
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data.</p>
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|
|
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<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.
|
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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>
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|
|
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<h4>ICU 3.4 and later</h4>
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|
|
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<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>
|
|
|
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<p><code>u_init()</code> can be used to check for data loading. It tries to
|
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load the converter alias table (<code>cnvalias.icu</code>).</p>
|
|
|
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<h4>ICU 2.6..3.2</h4>
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|
|
<p>These ICU versions require a call to <code>u_init()</code> before
|
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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>
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|
|
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<p><code>u_init()</code> loads and initializes the data files for
|
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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>
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|
|
|
<h4>ICU 2.4 and earlier</h4>
|
|
|
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<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/en/1405/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/en/1405/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>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>Source: "<i>Solaris Multithreaded Programming Guide, Compiling and
|
|
Debugging</i>", Sun Microsystems, Inc., Apr 2004<br />
|
|
<a href=
|
|
"http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpke?a=view">http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpke?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>
|
|
|
|
<p><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.</p>
|
|
|
|
<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://www.icu-project.org/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://www.icu-project.org/userguide/icudata.html">ICU
|
|
Data</a> chapter.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>ICU 3.6 removes the requirement that ICU be completely built in the native
|
|
operating environment. It adds the icupkg 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, ppalmos.h,
|
|
..): Platform-dependent typedefs and defines:<br />
|
|
<br />
|
|
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<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>
|
|
|
|
<li>Thread safety 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. We already supply working
|
|
implementations for many platforms that ICU builds on.<br />
|
|
<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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<hr />
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|
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others. All Rights Reserved.<br />
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