Re: [Boost-users] Boost + ICU in Windows with MinGW

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost + ICU in Windows with MinGW
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-01 08:26:04

> It means that a call to ICU::Collator::createInstance failed, last time
> someone had that error it was because their ICU data dll was broken (ie
> didn't actually have any locale data in it).

>This means that the boost dll doesn't found the icu dll? Could you tell me 
>which dll is searching or the approximate weight? I have a few icu dll (one 
>of around 15MB) >alongside boost_regex-mt.dll, but maybe I'm putting the 
>wrong dll (as icu doesn't generate both .lib and .dll in the same 
>compilation, I have to make two compilation >passes with different tweaks, 
>so maybe I'm doing something wrong in this pass).

It's finding the dll OK but the call to Collator::createInstance is failing 
(returning an error).

HTH, John.