PERL PERL6 INTERNALS 1 RE STRING INIT AND ICU DATA DIRECTORY
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:01:52 +0100

Subject: Re: string_init and ICU data directory
From: mailing-lists@no-spam (Ron Blaschke)

Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Ron Blaschke <ron@no-spam> wrote:

>> I've put the precompiled ICU into a directory, and supply the >> --icushared and --icuheaders. This precompiled package contains only >> the bin, include and lib. There's no data directory. This is because >> the ICU built-in data gets compiled into binary form, the library is >> named icudata.lib and icudt??.dll on Windows. If the data directory >> is set to the empty string, the library is used.

> Ok. I've now put in a test for an empty string. Hope that works.

Thanks, parrot now runs, even if it is installed on Windows.

The install procedure needs some work, though, as a number of files is not installed, eg parrot(.exe) and the dynclasses. But that's a different story.

Ron