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 7 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 52 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. 58 59