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

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den 25 jan 2016 8:24 fm skrev "Koehne Kai" <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>:
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> > -----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
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> > 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.
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> (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).

Woah. So all this work for nothing, I can simply skip shipping the ICU
DLLs? I'm only using QtCore. Oh well, then I learned something :)

Elvis
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> Regards
>
> Kai
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