Re: GNUstep + libicu on Windows

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 30 Jan 2011, at 16:57, Stefan Bidi wrote:

> Over the past 2 days I've made some major progress in compiling libicu on 
> mingw.  ICU doesn't officially support mingw, but I was able to find a patch 
> at openttd.org and modify it for our needs.  Currently it compiles and 
> gnustep-base is able to link against it.  Most of the testsuite tests pass, 
> but a few crash and others fail.  This, however, is true about a lot of the 
> tests, not just the ones that need libicu.
> 
> In any case, if you're going try it out, and I recommend you do (very 
> exciting stuff), you'll need the attached patch and configure will need these 
> directives: "--prefix=/mingw --libdir=/mingw/bin --disable-strict".
> 
> Stef
> <icu4c-4_6-mingw-gnustep.diff>

Do you have instructions on how to apply that patch and build please?

When I tried downloading icu4c-4_6-src.tgz, unpacking it, and applying the 
patch, the patch failed (perhaps I got the command wrong).
Also, it's not clear how you configured/built/installed ... if you could 
provide a step by step guide that would help a lot.