ICU-CONFIG(1) ICU 53.1 Manual ICU-CONFIG(1)NAMEicu-config - output ICU build options
SYNOPSISicu-config [ --bindir ] [ --cc ] [ --cflags ] [ --cppflags ] [
--cppflags-searchpath ] [ --cxx ] [ --cxxflags ] [ --detect-prefix ] [
--exec-prefix ] [ --exists ] [ --help, -?, --usage ] [ --icudata ] [
--icudata-install-dir ] [ --icudata-mode ] [ --icudatadir ] [ --invoke
] [ --invoke=prog ] [ --ldflags ] [ --ldflags-layout ] [ --ldflags-lib‐
sonly ] [ --ldflags-searchpath ] [ --ldflags-system ] [ --ldflags-icuio
] [ --mandir ] [ --prefix ] [ --prefix=prefix ] [ --sbindir ] [
--shared-datadir ] [ --sysconfdir ] [ --unicode-version ] [ --version ]
[ --incfile ]
DESCRIPTIONicu-config simplifies the task of building and linking against ICU as
compared to manually configuring user makefiles or equivalent. Because
icu-config is an executable script, it also solves the problem of
locating the ICU libraries and headers, by allowing the system PATH to
locate it.
EXAMPLESicu-config can be used without a makefile. The command line below is
sufficient for building a single-file c++ program against ICU. (For
example, icu/source/samples/props/props.cpp)
`icu-config --cxx--cxxflags--cppflags --ldflags` -o props
props.cpp
More commonly, icu-config will be called from within a makefile, and
used to set up variables. The following example also builds the props
example.
CC=$(shell icu-config --cc)
CXX=$(shell icu-config --cxx)
CPPFLAGS=$(shell icu-config --cppflags)
CXXFLAGS=$(shell icu-config --cxxflags)
LDFLAGS =$(shell icu-config --ldflags)
all: props
props.o: props.cpp
make(1) will automatically use the above variables.
OPTIONS--bindir
Prints the binary (executable) directory path. Normally equiva‐
lent to 'bin'. ICU user-executable applications and scripts are
found here.
--cc Print the C compiler used. Equivalent to the $(CC) Makefile
variable.
--cflags
Print the C compiler flags. Equivalent to the $(CFLAGS) Makefile
variable. Does NOT include preprocessor directives such as
include path or defined symbols. Examples include debugging (-g)
and optimization flags
--cppflags
Print the C preprocessor flags. Equivalent to the $(CPPFLAGS)
Makefile variable. Examples are -I include paths and -D define
directives.
--cppflags-searchpath
Print the C preprocessor flags, as above but only -I search
paths.
--cxx Print the C++ compiler. Equivalent to the $(CXX) Makefile vari‐
able.
--cxxflags
Print the C++ compiler flags. Equivalent to the $(CXXFLAGS)
Makefile variable.
--detect-prefix
If ICU has been moved from its installed location, prepending
this flag to other icu-config calls will attempt to locate ICU
relative to where the icu-config script has been located. Can be
used as a last-chance effort if the ICU install has been dam‐
aged.
--exec-prefix
Print the prefix used for executable program directories (such
as bin, sbin, etc). Normally the same as the prefix.
--exists
Script will return with a successful (0) status if ICU seems to
be installed and located correctly, otherwise an error message
and nonzero status will be displayed.
--help, -?,--usage
Print a help and usage message.
--icudata
Print the shortname of the ICU data file. This does not include
any suffix such as .dat, .dll, .so, .lib, .a, etc nor does it
include prefixes such as 'lib'. It may be in the form icudt21b
--icudata-install-dir
Print the directory where ICU packaged data should be installed.
Can use as pkgdata(1)'s --install option.
--icudata-mode
Print the default ICU pkgdata mode, such as dll or common. Can
use as pkgdata(1)'s --mode option.
--icudatadir
Print the path to packaged archive data. (should be where
$ICU_DATA or equivalent default path points.) Will NOT point to
the libdir.
--invoke
If ICU is not installed in a location where the operating system
will locate its shared libraries, this option will print out
commands so as to set the appropriate environment variables to
load ICU's shared libraries. For example, on many systems a
variable named LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent must be set.
--invoke=prog
Same as the --invoke option, except includes options for invok‐
ing a program named prog. If prog is the name of an ICU tool,
such as genrb(1), then icu-config will also include the full
path to that tool.
--ldflags
Print any flags which should be passed to the linker. These may
include -L for library search paths, and -l for including ICU
libraries. By default, this option will attempt to link in the
"common" (libicuuc) and "i18n" (libicui18n) libraries, as well
as the data library. If additional libraries are required, any
of the following two flags may be added in conjunction with this
one, for example "--ldflags --ldflags-icuio" if the icuio
library is required in addition to the standard ICU libraries.
Equivalent to the $(LDFLAGS) Makefile variable.
--ldflags-layout
Prints the link option for the ICU layout library.
--ldflags-icuio
Prints the link option to add the ICU I/O package
--ldflags-libsonly
Similar to --ldflags but only includes the -l options.
--ldflags-searchpath
Similar to --ldflags but only includes the -L search path
options.
--ldflags-system
Similar to --ldflags but only includes system libraries (such as
pthreads) --mandir Prints the location of the installed ICU man
pages. Normally (man)
--prefix
Prints the prefix (base directory) under which the installed ICU
resides.
--prefix=prefix
Sets the ICU prefix to prefix for the remainder of this command
line. Does test whether the new prefix is valid.
--sbindir
Prints the location of ICU system binaries, normally (sbin)
--shared-datadir
Prints the location of ICU shared data, normally (share)
--sysconfdir
Prints the location of ICU system configuration data, normally
(etc)
--unicode-version
Prints the Version of the Unicode Standard which the current ICU
uses.
--version
Prints the current version of ICU.
--incfile
Prints the 'Makefile.inc' path, suitable for use with pkg‐
data(1)'s -O option.
AUTHORS
Steven Loomis
VERSION
53.1
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 IBM, Inc. and others.
ICU MANPAGE 17 May 2004 ICU-CONFIG(1)
