[Development] ICU and Windows

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
>> [..]
> > Importing ICU into qtbase is fine with me. Anyhow, I don't particular like
> hard dependency to ICU from Qt5Core, since it forces everyone deploying a
> Windows helloworld to also ship icudt49.dll with 17,5 MB (!).
> 
> I hope that no one would deploy a debug version fo the dll. Regardless, I
> would prefer that ICU is statically linked so I can clean up so of my .pro and
> .pri files a bit at least for Qt 5.

icudt is the data library, which is the same for debug and release builds.

Regards

Kai