[Interest] Minimal MSVC-built ICU DLLs available for download

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Elvis:

If you are feeling generous, would you attach the MSVC 2013 
project/files (SLN).

People will want to build the ICU DLL's for MSVC 2015, but could use a 
jump start using your MSVC 2013 project.

That way, soft devs can match the Customizer to the actual languages 
supported in their shipped apps.

Cheers and Thanks,

md

On 1/24/2016 9:18 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've put up minimal MSVC 2010 and 2013 builds of ICU 52.1, 53.1 and
> 54.1 for x86 and x64:
>
>     https://github.com/estan/minimal-icu/releases
>
> The DLLs are usable as drop-in replacements for the ICU DLLs shipped
> with official Qt MSVC builds, provided you have no need for the
> advanced localization features provided by ICU.
>
> Just thought in case someone else was interested in cutting down the
> size of their deployed app, without having to build a custom Qt with
> `-no-icu`. I'm only using the ICU 54.1/MSVC 2013/x86 combo myself, and
> my app is only making use of QtCore, so consider other combinations
> untested for now.
>
> For me this cuts the size of the ICU DLLs from 8.5 MB to 1.4 MB in my
> deployed application. The space savings for other combinations should
> be similar.
>
> The size of the DLLs was reduced by using the ICU Data Library
> Customizer [1] and unchecking everything. See the `appveyor.yml` file
> for more info on how the DLLs were built.
>
> Cheers,
> Elvis
>
>
> [1] http://apps.icu-project.org/datacustom/
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