Re: [Boost-users] icu libraries renamed in icu-50-*

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] icu libraries renamed in icu-50-*
From: Jookia (166291_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-06 12:24:00

Hello!

I've posted this bug on the trac for Boost.Locale, with a patch that 
works for 32bit libraries:

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8205

Thanks,
Jookia.

On 03/03/13 23:04, koala01 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just have compiled a personnal build of mingw-w64 (gcc 4.8) and
> different extern libraries, as icu-50.1.2 (the last release of  that
> library) on windows vista
>
> When trying to compile boost (1-53-0), it appears that icu is not found,
> due to following name changes in icu:
>
>   * icudata library is now named icudt
>   * icui18n library is now named icuin
>
> (i dont know if those change are recent or not :S)
>
> We can, of course, provide a copy of those libraries with the correct /
> needed names, but shouldn't it better to make a conditionnal choice on
> the icu version to know if we have to use one or other name, to ensure
> that icu would be correctly detected ?
>
> I expect that such test should simply take place in a jamfile or in
> another, am i wrong?