[Haskell-cafe] text-icu on Windows

[Ryan Yates]

Also note that running in the console produces no error message, but
running by double-clicking from explorer does produce an error message that
specifies one of the missing dlls:

    ---------------------------
    icu.exe - System Error
    ---------------------------
    The program can't start because icuin51.dll is missing from your
computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
    ---------------------------
    OK
    ---------------------------


Ryan Yates

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Ryan Yates <fryguybob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I just tried this out and if I copied all of the .dll files from the icu4c
> bin folder into the same folder as the test icu.exe it works as expected.
>  You can see what dlls are missing with the dependency walker program
> http://www.dependencywalker.com/.  Perhaps with a mingw based build of
> icu4c (the one I used said it was built with Visual Studio 10) you could
> avoid this.
>
> Ryan Yates
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:56 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello café:
>>
>> I'd very much like to get text-icu working on Windows, as then I could
>> ship
>> pandoc binaries that do proper unicode collation in bibliographies.  But
>> I'm
>> having a devil of a time.  This may be due to my very limited Windows
>> knowledge.  Any help would be appreciated, especially from someone who
>> actually
>> has text-icu working on Windows.
>>
>> I was able to cabal install text-icu without errors. I used
>> --extra-lib-dirs
>> and --extra-include-dirs to point to the lib and include directories in
>> the
>> 32-bit binary distribution of icu4c.  I'm using the latest Haskell
>> Platform,
>> 2012.4.0.0 with ghc 7.4.2.
>>
>> I was also able to build the following simple program that uses text-icu,
>> by
>> doing ghc --make icu.hs:
>>
>> ~~~
>> -- icu.hs
>> import Data.Text.ICU
>> main = print $ Locale "tr-TR"
>> ~~~
>>
>> No errors or warnings in either of these steps. But when I try to run the
>> compiled program, icu.exe, I get no output at all. I expected to get a
>> line
>> with 'Locale "tr-TR"', but instead I get nothing -- not even an error or
>> warning.
>> This remains the case if I try
>>
>> ~~~
>> main = do
>>   print "Start"
>>   print $ Locale "tr-TR"
>>   print "Done"
>> ~~~
>>
>> 'echo $?' yields False.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> John
>>
>> (I've posted a similar question to StackOverflow [1], but it hasn't gotten
>> an answer yet there, so I thought I'd try here.)
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16127710/how-do-i-get-text-icu-working-on-windows
>> )
>>
>>
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