Adding ICU

[tofutim]

Hi, I wanted to add ICU to tokenize FTS4. I noticed in node-sqlite3 that there is a deps/sqlite3 folder containing sqlite.c. Is this used? Or does it refer to libsqlite3.a in the machine? I did install libsqlite-dev.

Update. I'm new to gyp. It appears that I can modify the settings I want in binding.gyp and then this acts as the Makefile (in a sense) for sqlite3.c.

[springmeyer]

Yes, we should consider adding an option to build the internal copy of sqlite against icu. But in the meantime the easiest way, if your system/external copy has ICU support, is to build against it by doing:

npm install node-gyp -g
./configure --sqlite=/usr
make

[springmeyer]

building against external icu seems like the best solution. We now provide binaries by default, so you'll need npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source --sqlite=/some/path/to/custom/libsqlite3