Re: [Boost-users] ICU and Boost Regex

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-20 13:24:47

Sudarshan Gaikaiwari wrote:
> Hello Boost Experts
>
> I am trying to use Boost Regex to replace the java.util.regex package.
>
> I want to use the Unicode Regular Expressions and need to link with
> the ICU libraries.
>
> However I want to keep the size of my program as small as possible.
> What components of ICU are essential for Boost regex? What is the ICU
> configuration that would lead to the smallest ICU binaries that can
> still be usable by Boost regex?

The short answer is try it and see: you don't need code-page-conversion, and 
you probably don't need many (any?) locales.  Take that data out and ICU 
should shrink an awful lot.

HTH, John