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If you are building using 'Visual Studio 2015' instead, or if you are building the UWP projects and you have a different
version of the Windows 10 SDK installed you will first need to modify the two "Build.Windows.*.props" files
in the "allinone" directory before you can open the "allinone" solution file.
- Please see the notes below about building with other versions of Visual Studio or the
- notes on re-targeting the Windows 10 SDK for the UWP projects for details.
+ Please see the notes below about building with other versions of Visual Studio and the
+ notes on re-targeting the Windows 10 SDK for the UWP projects for details. Alternatively,
+ you can skip building the UWP projects entirely as well.
+
Set the active platform to "Win32" or "x64" (See Windows platform note below)
and configuration to "Debug" or "Release" (See Windows configuration note below).
@@ -859,7 +861,7 @@
project to "iotest", and press Ctrl+F5 to run it. Make sure that it passes
without any errors.
-
+
You are now able to develop applications with ICU by using the
libraries and tools in <ICU>\bin\. The headers are in
@@ -926,20 +928,35 @@
You can then use either 'msbuild' directly, or you can use the 'devenv.com' command to build ICU.
Using MSBUILD:
- - To build the 32-bit Debug version, use the following command line:
+
- To build the 32-bit Debug version, use the following command line:
'msbuild source\allinone\allinone.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=Win32'.
- - To build the 64-bit Release version, use the following command line:
+
- To build the 64-bit Release version, use the following command line:
'msbuild source\allinone\allinone.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64'.
Using devenv.com:
- - To build the 32-bit Debug version, use the following command line:
+
- To build the 32-bit Debug version, use the following command line:
'devenv.com source\allinone\allinone.sln /build "Debug|Win32"'.
- - To build the 64-bit Release version, use the following command line:
+
- To build the 64-bit Release version, use the following command line:
'devenv.com source\allinone\allinone.sln /build "Release|x64"'.
+ Skipping the UWP Projects on the Command Line Note:
+ You can skip (or omit) building the UWP projects on the command line by passing the argument
+ 'SkipUWP=true' to either MSBUILD or devenv.
+
+
+ - For example, using MSBUILD:
+
+ - To skip building the UWP projects with a 32-bit Debug build, use the following command line:
+ 'msbuild source\allinone\allinone.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=Win32 /p:SkipUWP=true'.
+ - To skip building the UWP projects with a 64-bit Release version, use the following command line:
+ 'msbuild source\allinone\allinone.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64 /p:SkipUWP=true'.
+
+
+
You can also use Cygwin with the MSVC compiler to build ICU, and you can refer to the How To Build And Install On Windows with Cygwin
section for more details.
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