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

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Elvis
> Stansvik
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:30 PM
> To: rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org Interest <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Minimal MSVC-built ICU DLLs available for download
> 
> 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.
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I did some experiments just now, trying to build ICU with 2015, but got
> linker errors.
> 
> It also seems that ICU has other problems when building with 2015 (e.g.
> http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11798).
> 
> Also, I think (though I'm not sure) that from Qt 5.6, the official Qt builds
> with default to -no-icu, and since the DLLs I built were primarily meant to be
> used with the official Qt builds, I think I'll hold off on building with 2015 for
> now, since I'd have to patch ICU to do so.

True. For Qt 5.6, ICU libs will be dropped from the official packages completely.

(In case that was missed: in the official Qt 5.5 binaries already  _only_ Qt5WebKit
links against ICU libs. Qt5Base does not link against it).

Regards

Kai