I'm trying to build a library that links against the ICU library
supplied by the mingw32 package set. Detection of library names,
linker settings, CFLAGS and so on are handled through the standard
icu-config script that is supplied by the ICU packages. However, when
building for a Windows target that script only handles MSVC style of
libraries and naming conventions. When it fails to locate libicu*.lib
it returns an error message and no useful output. This leads to my
library linking improperly when it fails to locate the expected ICU
libraries.
The icu-config script is assembled from a number of places where it is
forced together. I have patched those files for when I built MinGW ICU
packages for Ubuntu. The relevant patch is intermingled in the
following file, which applies cleanly to 4.8.1.1 and is derived from
the same patch in the SuSE repository:
http://fpaste.org/qB2E/
I included in it some changes that allow icu-config to be run
properly, thus allowing some dependent libraries to link more readily.
It might need some tweaking for the SuSE packages, which I believe
rename the .dll.a files to remove the version suffix.
--Greg
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