Building ICU 32/64 on Windows

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Building ICU x64 common and i18n projects for Boost

You do not need to build the whole of ICU just to get icudt.lib, icuuc.lib and icuin.lib required by boost regex for unicode aware regex

The "common" project makes icudt.lib icuuc.lib and the "i18n" project makes icuin.lib

Specimen Build Platform/Environment

  • windows server 2008 R2 SP1 64
  • install sdk7.1 minimally
  • install visual studio c++ 2010 express (if building debug versions)

Get ICU Source

extract all to f:\icu4c-4_6_1-src 

http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.6.1/icu4c-4_6_1-src.zip

open sdk7.1 command prompt and get into icu source folder 

f:
cd \icu4c-4_6_1-src\icu\source

Building Release Version

setenv /release

cd common
msbuild /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release
cd ..

cd i18n
msbuild /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release
cd ..

Check the lib64 folder for icudt.lib, icuuc.lib and icuin.lib

Building Debug Version

Producing the proper debug versions of icu may not be necessary if your objective is only to produce release versions of the boost libraries (and you use the work-around to avoid the need for icu debug libraries) 

setenv /debug

NOTE: To produce the DEBUG version of the libraries, you need Visual Studio's bscmake on the path. This must be done after setenv. 

vsvars32 x64

cd common
msbuild /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Debug
cd ..

cd i18n
msbuild /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Debug
cd ..

Check the lib64 folder for icuucd.lib and icuind.lib

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