Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] New package icu4c (was qt5 QtWebkit)

[Tony Theodore]

Hi Fabrice,

On 20/05/2013, at 6:26 AM, fabrice <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> 
> To add details to my prior email, you'll find attached a log of "make qtbase" 
> under MXE with the added switch -icu to the qtbase.mk configure command line.
> 
> -icu is made necessary by qtwebkit yet on linking -licu (pre-installed), the 
> config test crashes because of unresolved symbols.

Mark has added support for icu in qtbase:

https://github.com/mxe/mxe/commit/9898a6ec1860245d271959022202973138eae99f


> Note that additionally, your tweak in the icu4c.mk (on the 's' label for 
> static lib) did not actually work, as I had to manually rename libs*icu*.a 
> into lib*icu*.a (under the MXE lib directory) for the linker to recognize it 
> at config.test stage above.

If you wanted to do this manually, you'd have to also add `-licuuc`, but it's 
better to follow the conventions of a project and use pkg-config.

Cheers,

Tony