[sword-devel] CMake ICU (was Re: cmake python)

[Andrew Thule]

Thanks Ben.

I'll have to give it a try.
~A

On Saturday, January 5, 2013, Ben wrote:

> Hey Andrew,
>
> Cmake is a replacement for autotools/configure - it still uses make. Cmake
> isn't related to python.
>
> The normal sequence with cmake is:
> cmake
> make
> make install
>
> The normal sequence otherwise is:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> So cmake is just another way of setting up the Makefiles and build process.
>
> -Ben
>
> On 01/04/2013 05:42 PM, Andrew Thule wrote:
>
>> I'm curious, why do people seem to prefer cmake to make?  Is that a
>> python thing?
>>
>> ~A
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com
>> <mailto:greg.hellings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:51 PM,  <cricketc at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:cricketc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Greg Hellings
>>     <greg.hellings at gmail.com <mailto:greg.hellings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM,  <cricketc at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:cricketc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      >>> Here's a patch that helps some with osistest. I still get the
>>      >>> following error when I run osistest, though:
>>      >>> UTF8Transliterator: ICU: no resource index to load
>>      >>> UTF8Transliterator: ICU: status U_MISSING_RESOURCE_ERROR
>>      >>
>>      >> This is because it's not finding the locales or some such. I very
>>      >> frequently get it, mainly when running from an uninstalled SWORD
>>      >> instance but it happens other times even on install.
>>      >>
>>      >> I'll see about applying these patches.
>>      >
>>      > Here's patch that I think helps with the ICU support. It finds the
>>      > genrb command, and then also sets the ICU_VERSION variable, like
>> the
>>      > configure build system does. (The osis test still fails, but it
>>      > doesn't have the UTF8Transliterator error.)
>>
>>     Your patch was on the right path but used icu-config which is horridly
>>     broken in native Windows builds (it's a Bash script) or in cross-build
>>     environments from Linux (it explodes looking for a .so library when it
>>     should look for a .dll).
>>
>>     I have substituted using CMake's built-in pkg-config functions to pull
>>     out the modversion variable of libicuuc, which is one of the few that
>>     we actually link directly against.
>>
>>     I wish I could tell you why that fixes the issue, but it does. Thank
>>     you much, because that has been bugging me for a long time. The fix
>>     should be in the SVN HEAD now.
>>
>>     --Greg
>>
>>      >
>>      > -Ben
>>      >
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