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ICU-CONFIG(1)			ICU 76.1 Manual			 ICU-CONFIG(1)

NAME
       icu-config - output ICU build options

SYNOPSIS
       icu-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-libsonly ] [ --ld-
       flags-searchpath	] [ --ldflags-system ] [ --ldflags-icuio ] [  --mandir
       ] [ --prefix ] [	--prefix=prefix	] [ --sbindir ]	[ --shared-datadir ] [
       --sysconfdir ] [	--unicode-version ] [ --version	] [ --incfile ]

DESCRIPTION
       icu-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  lo-
       cating  the  ICU	 libraries and headers,	by allowing the	system PATH to
       locate it.

EXAMPLES
       icu-config can be used without a	makefile. The command  line  below  is
       sufficient for building a single-file c++ program against ICU. (For ex-
       ample, 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  in-
	      clude  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  li-
	      brary  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  op-
	      tions.

       --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
       76.1

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002-2004 IBM, Inc. and others.

ICU MANPAGE			  17 May 2004			 ICU-CONFIG(1)

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