ICU-49.1.1

Introduction to ICU

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) package is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.1 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icu

Installation of ICU

Install ICU by running the following commands:

cd source &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: derb, genbrk, gencfu, gencnval, genctd, genrb, icu-config, icuinfo, makeconv, pkgdata and uconv.
Installed Libraries: libicudata.so, libicui18n.so, libicuio.so, libicule.so, libiculx.so, libicutest.so, libicutu.so and libicuuc.so.
Installed Directories: /usr/include/layout, /usr/include/unicode, /usr/lib/icu and /usr/share/icu.

Short Descriptions

derb

disassembles a resource bundle.

genbrk

compiles ICU break iteration rules source files into binary data files.

gencfu

reads in Unicode confusable character definitions and writes out the binary data.

gencnval

compiles the converter's aliases file.

genctd

compiles a word list into an ICU compact trie dictionary.

genrb

compiles a resource bundle.

icu-config

outputs ICU build options.

icuinfo

outputs configuration information about the current ICU.

makeconv

compiles a converter table.

pkgdata

packages data for use by ICU.

uconv

converts data from one encoding to another.

libicudata.so

is the data library.

libicui18n.so

is the internationalization (i18n) library.

libicuio.so

is the ICU I/O (unicode stdio) library.

libicule.so

is the layout engine.

libiculx.so

is the layout extensions engine.

libicutest.so

is the test library.

libicutu.so

is the tool utility library.

libicuuc.so

is the common library.

Last updated on 2012-04-12 20:09:25 +0000