id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
8770,has_icu_test depending on DEBUG ICU libraries,Martin Baute <solar@…>,Artyom Beilis,"I am pretty sure this has been brought to attention before, as I distinctly remember reading a discussion on the issue, but I couldn't find it in the database.

Platform is Windows XP, MS Visual Studio 8.

Having unpacked the latest ICU release to support MSVC 8 (which is ICU 4.0.1), I am trying to compile Boost 1.54.0 with ICU support enabled.

Using the [http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/install.html#boost_regex.install.building_with_unicode_and_icu_support instructions], I call:

    bjam -sICU_PATH=C:\contrib\icu-4.0.1

I get:

    ...
    - has_icu builds : no

In bin.v2\config.log:

    msvc.link bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-8.0\debug\has_icu.exe
    LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'icuind.lib'

        call ""C:\Programme\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\vcvarsall.bat"" x86 >nul
    link /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO /DEBUG /MACHINE:X86 /MANIFEST /subsystem:console
        if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 EXIT %ERRORLEVEL%

    ...failed msvc.link bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-8.0\debug\has_icu.exe bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-8.0\debug\has_icu.pdb...

In bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-8.0\debug:

   ""bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-8.0\debug\has_icu_test.obj""
   ""icudt.lib""
   ""icuind.lib""
   ""icuucd.lib""

This happens even if I state `variant=release` on the `bjam` line. I.e., to determine whether ICU is present ''for a release build'', Boost is looking for ''debug'' versions of the ICU libraries. This renders the default instructions of how to build Boost with ICU support non-functional with the default distribution of ICU for Windows, effectively forcing people to manually compile ICU instead of using the ready-made binaries, to satisfy peculiarities of the Boost build system. (Unless there are some command-line switches I am not aware of, which should then be made part of the respective documentation of the build process.)

Thumbs down, that's not the way to go.",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,locale,Boost 1.54.0,Problem,invalid,ICU,