Re: [Boost-users] ICU and Boost Regex

Sudarshan Gaikaiwari wrote:

Hello Boost Experts

I am trying to use Boost Regex to replace the java.util.regex package.

I want to use the Unicode Regular Expressions and need to link with the ICU libraries.

However I want to keep the size of my program as small as possible. What components of ICU are essential for Boost regex? What is the ICU configuration that would lead to the smallest ICU binaries that can still be usable by Boost regex?

The short answer is try it and see: you don't need code-page-conversion, and you probably don't need many (any?) locales. Take that data out and ICU should shrink an awful lot. HTH, John