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Chapter 3. Shared Dependencies

libunistring-1.3

Introduction to libunistring

libunistring is a library that provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.

Installation of libunistring

Install libunistring by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libunistring-1.3 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

32-bit Installation of lib32-libunistring

First clean the directory by running the following command: 

make distclean

Install lib32-libunistring by running the following commands: 

CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32"         \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib32/pkgconfig \
./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --libdir=/usr/lib32      \
            --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
            --disable-static &&

make

Now as the root user: 

make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
cp -vr DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
rm -rf DESTDIR
ldconfig

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libunistring.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/unistring and /usr/share/doc/libunistring-1.3

Short Descriptions

libunistring.so

provides the unicode string library API