On Mon, 3 May 2004 11:25:30 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, folks, our base ICU as we ship with parrot just flat-out > doesn't seem to work with cygwin, and it seems somewhat spotty with > basic windows.
Things get really messy with Visual Studio 2003. > The answer would seem to be "Use a system installed ICU", so that > sounds like a good place to start. There's an install kit for Windows > at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6.2/index.html, so if > someone'd like to snag that, install it, and teach Parrot to link > with it instead of our source, that'd be quite cool. Did just that some time ago, but with version 2.8. It's as simple as - Download the package - unzip it, eg to C:\usr\lib\icu - Tell parrot to use it: perl Configure.pl --icushared="C:\usr\lib\icu\lib\icudata.lib \ C:\usr\lib\icu\lib\icuuc.lib" --icuheaders="C:\usr\lib\icu\include" BTW, current test results on win32 are: Failed 1/102 test scripts, 99.02% okay. 3/1519 subtests failed, 99.80% okay. Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t\pmc\nci.t 3 768 31 3 9.68% 27-29 2 tests and 60 subtests skipped. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0xff' Ron
