I'm trying to build some basic Boost.Locale Jam file on base of Boost.Regex one, however... I can't even build Boost.Regex with ICU at all.
Version 1.43 ------------
Debian, ICU 3.8 installed in regular place /usr/lib/libicu*.so
Build:
bjam -d+2 -sHAVE_ICU=1 stage
Shows that the build is done with ICU (i.e. -DBOOST_HAS_ICU=1 in command line of gcc)
However when afterward I check
ldd stage/lib/libboost_regex.so
It shows no evidence of linking with ICU.
Does the linker command show that it's being linked to ICU? Come to that if the compiler command line has BOOST_HAS_ICU set, then you *will* get compiler errors if it's not being built against ICU. Stupid question, but are you sure that you're looking at the correct binaries?
Version 1.44 ------------
Build:
bjam -d+2 -sHAVE_ICU=1 stage
-sHAVE_ICU has no effect in 1.44 - it should detect and configure it automatically. When you build there should be a message something like: Performing configuration checks - has_icu builds : no And if you see a "no" here then look in bin.v2/config.log to see the actual error messages that caused the configure check to fail. HTH, John.