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@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:jgm@berkeley.edu 3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16127710/how-do-i-get-text-icu-working-on... 4. mailto:Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org 5. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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