As I'm currently at my fathers place I had the time and resources to do some cygwin and native win32 testing.
Great!
I can't get it to work under Cygwin since the ICU changes because it tries to...
do some linking stuff that fails
Next I tried native Win32, where I got another ICU issue (do we *really* need
unicode? :-). It seems as if ICU needs not only a (n)make and a compiler, but
depends on msdev.exe, which seems to be the executable for the M$ Devel
Studio which can also be used on the command line. It alway complains about
the missing file, and as I didn't have an MS Dev studio, I stopped for today.
So, after a hard days work, no real success :-(
Two thinks to look at, if you are still in the mood to experiment. :)
1) Take a look at:
<http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icu/ readme.html#HowToBuildWindows>
and see if you can get ICU building by itself--that is, outside of its integration into parrot's Makefile (but from the source which comes with parrot). (That URL goes to the readme for the newest version of ICU, but I'm not sure if it's changed since the version we have.)
2) All of the setup for parrot is controlled by config/gen/icu.pl, so if you can build it "alone", then this file is what needs to be modified to set things up properly. I think that so far it is just handling one Windows build scenario (but I'm not sure which one)--but it is working for some setups, at least.
JEff
