Compiling the ICU library (using Cygwin)

SOURCE download

• ICU Project Address
• Install Cygwin, install at least the following tools
  • Make
  • Dos2unix
  • Binutils

Compiling the project

• Open the command line and go to the root directory of the source folder
• Configure the VC compilation environment, execute the command "C:\Program Files (x86) \microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\vc\vcvarsall.bat" x86
• Set the environment variable, add the Cygwin bin directory path to the environment variable, execute the command set path=%path%;D: \dev\cygwin64\bin

• Convert files, execute commands

  • Dos2unix *
  • Dos2unix-f Configure

• If you need to compile Mt , open the runconfigureicu file and change the MD in the cygwin/msvc configuration to Mt

• Configure compilation options, execute command bash runconfigureicu–enable-debug–disable-release cygwin/msvc-prefix=/cygdrive/f/3rd/icu-lib– Enable-static–disable-shared

  • -prefix: Set the installation directory, note that starting with /cygdrive
  • –enable-debug–disable-release: Debug version, nothing added, default to release
  • –enable-static–disable-shared: statically compiled Lib
  • –disable-static–enable-shared: dynamically compiled DLLs

• Static compile, execute command D:\Dev\cygwin64\bin\make.exe , note with Cygwin64 make

• After the compilation is complete, install ICU, execute command D:\Dev\cygwin64\bin\make.exe Install
  • After the command is executed, the ICU library file is copied to the directory specified in the previous-prefix parameter
• Cleanup temporary files, execute command D:\Dev\cygwin64\bin\make.exe clean

Reference documents

• Compiling-icu-with-msvc

http://wangjie.rocks/2015/12/10/compile-icu/

Compiling the ICU library (using Cygwin)