Re: [Boost-build] [Locale] Help Needed with Boost-Build

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [Locale] Help Needed with Boost-Build
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-22 14:43:39

On Friday 10 September 2010 14:24:19 Artyom wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Help From Community Needed
> ==========================
> 
> 
> Today Boost.Locale can be build only using CMake,
> I need to port it to Boost.Build. Unfortunalty It is
> very complicated task for me for two reasons:
> 
> - Quite complicated build requirements
> - Lack of documentation
> - Lack of my experience with BBv2
> 
> I've tried but I had no progress, even with previous,
> much simpler version of Boost.Locale which didn't depended
> on iconv and had ICU must to build option and so on.
> 
> Can some body please help me with build scripts?
> 
> The build requirements are generally following:
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> Input Options:
> 
> - with icu - turned on by default.
> - with iconv (turned off by default in Windows and Solaris)
> - with posix-backend (turned on by default on Linux and Mac)
> - with winapi-backend (turned on on windows and cygwin)
> - with std-backend (turned off by default with SunStudio/stlport)
> 
> Pre-Build Checks:
> 
> - if with icu is on, but no icu found, turn it on
>   Note, when building under MSVC/Debug; search for icuXXXd library 
>   rather then for icuXXX library.
> - if with iconv is on
>   if iconv is a part of standard C library, use it
>   Otherwise find libiconv, if not found, turn iconv off.
> - if not on Windows and both iconv and icu are off rise
>   a error, no - charset conversion tool is given
> - if building under SunStudion make sure it uses -library=stlport4
>   flag
> - Ensure threading on
> 
> Build Defines:
> 
> - Add BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB
> - if icu is enabled:
>     Define BOOST_LOCALE_WITH_ICU
> - if iconv enabled and found 
>     Define BOOST_LOCALE_WITH_ICONV
>   else
>     Define BOOST_LOCALE_NO_ICONV

Why is BOOST_LOCALE_NO_ICONV needed -- should be inverse of BOOST_LOCALE_WITH_ICONV, no?

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
Boost.Build: http://boost.org/boost-build2