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ICU-CONFIG(1)			ICU 68.2 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
       68.2

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

ICU MANPAGE			  17 May 2004			 ICU-CONFIG(1)

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