[Haskell-cafe] text-icu on Windows

[John MacFarlane]

Ryan,

Many thanks for your reply.  I was assuming ghc would statically link
against the library files instead of relying on the dll's.  I will see
if I can build the library from source under mingw.  An alternative
would be to distribute the needed dlls with the binary.

John

+++ Ryan Yates [Apr 27 13 19:53 ]:
>    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[1]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 <[2]jgm at berkeley.edu>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Hello caf:
>      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]:
>      [3]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16127710/how-do-i-get-text-icu
>      -working-on-windows)
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> References
> 
>    1. http://www.dependencywalker.com/
>    2. mailto:jgm at berkeley.edu
>    3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16127710/how-do-i-get-text-icu-working-on-windows
>    4. mailto:Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
>    5. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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