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]j...@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) > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [4]Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > [5]http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > References > > 1. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ > 2. mailto:j...@berkeley.edu > 3. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16127710/how-do-i-get-text-icu-working-on-windows > 4. mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > 5. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
