readme.txt
1Copyright (c) 2002-2010, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
2icudate: a sample program which displays the current date
3
4This sample demonstrates
5 Formatting a date
6 Outputting text in the default codepage to the console
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8
9Files:
10 date.c Main source file
11 uprint.h codepage output convenience header
12 uprint.h codepage output convenience implementation
13 date.sln Windows MSVC workspace. Double-click this to get started.
14 date.vcproj Windows MSVC project file
15
16To Build icudate on Windows
17 1. Install and build ICU
18 2. In MSVC, open the workspace file icu\samples\date\date.sln
19 3. Choose a Debug or Release build.
20 4. Build.
21
22To Run on Windows
23 1. Start a command shell window
24 2. Add ICU's bin directory to the path, e.g.
25 set PATH=c:\icu\bin;%PATH%
26 (Use the path to where ever ICU is on your system.)
27 3. cd into the icudate directory, e.g.
28 cd c:\icu\source\samples\date\debug
29 4. Run it (Warning: Be careful, 'date' is also a system command on many systems)
30 .\date
31
32To Build on Unixes
33 1. Build ICU. icudate is built automatically by default unless samples are turned off.
34 Specify an ICU install directory when running configure,
35 using the --prefix option. The steps to build ICU will look something
36 like this:
37 cd <icu directory>/source
38 runConfigureICU <platform-name> --prefix <icu install directory> [other options]
39 gmake all
40
41 2. Install ICU,
42 gmake install
43
44 To Run on Unixes
45 cd <icu directory>/source/samples/date
46
47 gmake check
48 -or-
49
50 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<icu install directory>/lib:.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
51 date
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53
54 Note: The name of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is different on some systems.
55 If in doubt, run the sample using "gmake check", and note the name of
56 the variable that is used there. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the correct name
57 for Linux and Solaris.
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