As far as I know Chromium also depends on ICU and without WebKit or WebEngine you may but need not to use ICU. But I sadly don't know if and what features are (internally) missing if Qt is not built with ICU - for our applications we always have to build it with because of WebKit/WebEngine.
Beste Grüße / Best regards, Alexander Nassian > Am 07.05.2016 um 23:25 schrieb Roland Winklmeier > <[email protected]>: > > Dear Qt Devs, > > I'm currently preparing installers for a cross platform application > (Win, Linux, OSX). I have investigated, which dependencies apart from > the Qt5 libraries themselves are need to be shipped as well. But I'm a > bit confused about the role of ICU. > > From wiki pages (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.6_Tools_and_Versions and > https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git), I understood that, ICU is > only required for QtWebkit. I also learned that the ICU version shipped > in Qt 5.6.0 is 56.1. > > However, I found the following facts a bit inconsistent: > * Windows is actually shipping 54.1 instead of 56.1. Was the upgrade > missed or is this on purpose? To me it is a minor issue, but I'm curious. > * Official Windows QtCore binary is not linked against ICU libraries (at > least from what I can see in dependency walker). Does it link at runtime? > * Official Linux QtCore binary in contrast is linked against ICU > (verified with ldd). > * Official OS X QtCore binary again is not linked against ICU. > > Now my question: > Is ICU mandatory for all platforms or maybe only for Linux? Ideally I > could just skip shipping it in my installer, since I'm using a custom > Qt5 build on my Debian server (I did not yet manage to use the official > installer on a headless server with an install script). But I want to be > sure, what features I'm loosing before any decision. ? > > *guess mode on* > I guess, ICU was shipped previously because of QtWebkit. Since QtWebkit > is no longer shipped in official installers, could ICU also be removed? > I know what ICU is, but why is it shipped without linking against it? > *guess mode off* > > Cheers Roland > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
