Re: [Boost-users] Boost::Locale jam file seems to be outdated for ICU ver. 53.1

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost::Locale jam file seems to be outdated for ICU ver. 53.1
From: Shane Turner (shane.turner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-24 07:42:07

On 23/09/2014 5:34 PM, Caroline Beltran wrote:
I'm using Boost::Locale (and ICU) for the first time but I strongly believe that the jam file is referencing old ICU dll filenames.

Current ICU dlls:

icuucd53.dll
icudt53.dll
icuind53.dll
icuin53.dll

Relevant snippet from jam file (Boost 1.56):

searched-lib icuuc : :  <toolset>msvc
                        <variant>debug
                        <name>icuucd
                        <search>$(ICU_PATH)/lib
                        <link>shared
                        <runtime-link>shared ;

To me it appears that the snippet above is referring to icuucd when it should be referring to icuucd53.

I've been trying really hard to get Boost::Locale going on my system.  I updated all references to dlls and this is the result of the config test.  As you can see, I am not linking with ICU (even though ICU was installed correctly and ICU test results were successful).  I think that the jam file may need further changes.  Please advise.

D:\boost_1_56_0\stage\lib>test_config
- Backends: std winapi
- Without iconv
- Environment
  LANG=
  LC_ALL=
  LC_CTYPE=
  TZ=
- C locale: English_United States.1252
- C++ locale: English_United States.1252
- Testing locales availability on the operation system:
                            locale   C C++
                       en_US.UTF-8  No  No
                   en_US.ISO8859-1  No  No
        English_United States.1252 Yes Yes
                       he_IL.UTF-8  No  No
                   he_IL.ISO8859-8  No  No
                Hebrew_Israel.1255 Yes Yes
                       ru_RU.UTF-8  No  No
               Russian_Russia.1251 Yes Yes
                       tr_TR.UTF-8  No  No
               Turkish_Turkey.1254 Yes Yes
                       ja_JP.UTF-8  No  No
                        ja_JP.SJIS  No  No
                Japanese_Japan.932 Yes Yes
- Testing timezone and time
  Local Time    :%c=09/23/14 15:18:07; %Z=Central Daylight Time (Mexico); %z=Central Daylight Time (Mexico)
  Universal Time:%c=09/23/14 20:18:07; %Z=Central Standard Time (Mexico); %z=Central Standard Time (Mexico)
- Boost.Locale's locale: en_US.UTF-8
This doesn't exactly answer the question posed, but might be useful, or hopefully at least informative to someone.

Have you looked at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/locale/doc/html/using_localization_backends.html to see if you actually require the ICU back-end for your use case?

In the project that I support, I chose to to use the std backend since we simply required converting between a set of character encodings. You might be able to use the winapi or std backends and remove your dependency on ICU.

In my case, we compile with "boost.locale.icu=off boost.locale.posix=off" to disable the ICU backend and the POSIX backend (which is a subset of the std backend).

Sincerely,
Shane Turner
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