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

[rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com]

Koehne:

What does that mean for unicode support with qt5base since qt 5.6 are 
not linking icu?

Is this going to require that we build our own ICU so that QString is 
unicode ready?

Thanks,

md

On 1/25/2016 1:24 AM, Koehne Kai wrote:
>
>> -----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
>