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

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-01-24 17:32 GMT+01:00 rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com <rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com>:
> 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,

Hi md,

I'm using the .sln provided by ICU itself in
source\allinone\allinone.sln, I'm simply upgrading it to a 2013
project using devenv to make it work with MSVC 2013 (see the
appveyor.yml in the repo I linked), since the solution is in 2010
format. So there's no custom solution involved at all.

Appveyor (which I'm using to build) has worker machines with MSVC 2015
as well, so I might be able to make 2015 builds as well. The workers
with 2015 are separate from the ones with 2010 / 2013 though, which is
a little awkward, so it might be a bit work to get the appveyor.yml to
work for 2010 + 2013 + 2015 builds. I'll look into it when I have some
spare time though.

In the meantime, you can always just fork my repo and adapt the
appveyor.yml to make 2015 builds only (see
https://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software#visual-studio-2015).

The way I'm using the Customizer (which actually has an XML POST API
which I use through curl) is described in README.md (under Notes to
Self), and in the appveyor.yml of course.

Elvis

>
> 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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