[sword-devel] Sword library: Compiler errors with newer version of ICU (63) on Ubuntu 19.04

[Tobias Klein]

Ok, thanks. I've been using the 1.8.1 tag. That explains it then.
I'm glad it's already fixed on trunk.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 15.06.19 22:29, Greg Hellings wrote:
> There are patches already in SVN head for building with CMake that set 
> the appropriate compiler flag for this. It's necessary for anything 
> after ICU 61
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 13:33 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info 
> <mailto:contact at tklein.info>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     While building Ezra Project packages for Ubuntu 19.04 including a
>     statically linked version of Sword I ran into compile time
>     problems. The
>     problems were related to the ICU library.
>
>     I'm using libicu-dev (ICU 63):
>     https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/libicu-dev
>
>     The errors are all the same and caused by UnicodeString type that
>     cannot
>     be identified as a type.
>
>     Example:
>
>     In file included from
>     /tmp/node-sword-interface-git/sword/src/mgr/swmgr.cpp:108:
>     /tmp/node-sword-interface-git/sword/include/utf8transliterator.h:53:2:
>
>     error: 'UnicodeString' does not name a type
>        UnicodeString resource;
>
>     The issue can be fixed by prepending a "icu::" namespace
>     identifier in
>     front of the UnicodeString (like icu::UnicodeString) or by just
>     adding
>     statement in the beginning "using namespace icu;".
>     I've been patching my Sword checkout using the "using namespace icu;"
>     fix in the corresponding files, see attached patch.
>
>     This does not cause problems with an earlier ICU version (like
>     60.2 on
>     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), so it may just be included in the Sword sources?
>
>     Best regards,
>     Tobias
>
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