Hi,
most of you might have recognized it by now but M$ released it's compiler to
the public yesterday (I know it has been there before, but everybody sells it
as real news). As I'm currently at my fathers place I had the time and
resources to do some cygwin and native win32 testing.
I can't get it to work under Cygwin since the ICU changes because it tries to
do some linking stuff that fails, I believe the important parts are:
/usr/bin/ar: creating libicuctestfw.a
/usr/bin/ar: creating libicutoolutil.a
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
cannot find -licutoolutil26
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [makeconv.exe] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 2
make: *** [blib/lib/libicuuc.a] Error 2
As I couldn't find any icutoolutil26* file and didn't find a cygwin version I
stopped for today.
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 :-(
Have fun,
Marcus
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