Tech support • icu-uc not found

Hi,

I tried building Freeciv and can't get past this.

...
checking for icu-uc... no
configure: error: icu development files not found. Adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH may help

configure failed

I'm using Cygwin with the following command (the --enable-client=win32 parameter was rejected as win32 was not a valid value):

./autogen.sh --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr --host=mingw32 --disable-nls

I tried adding the following line to autogen.sh but it didn't help:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="cygdrive/c/dev/cygwin64/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin"

That directory contains icui18n57.dll and icuuc57.dll along with a bunch of others.

In Cygwin I have libicu74 and libicu76 installed as well as mingw64-i686-icu and mingw64-x86_64-icu, and 3 other related libraries. I couldn't find any libraries named libicu-dev, as mentioned in this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=93023

My goal is to modify the autoworker AI so I don't have to micromanage the engineers so much. First step: compile...

Thanks for any suggestions.

Statistics: Posted by sandwave — Wed May 14, 2025 3:19 am

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