Re: RC1 Candidate (windows 64, msvcr100.dll)

[John W. Eaton]

On 1/29/19 5:22 AM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:

> Running octave-cli.exe through Dependency Walker shows that the dependency on 
> msvcr100.dll is through qt5core.dll --> icuin63.dll.
> Can we bundle the redistributable package in the nsis installer or somehow else 
> tell that we dependent on MS Visual C++ 2010?
>
> Alternatively, can we compile ICU without the dependency on MS Visual C++?

We are building icu with GCC so I don't know why it depends on a 
particular version of the msvc runtime library.

> I also wonder if the reports of people not being able to start newer versions 
> of Octave is related to this.

Possibly.

Also, I was guessing the change happened when we enabled ICU for the 
mxe-octave build, but that happened well before the 4.4.0 release (made 
on 2018-04-30):

  http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/0deb76a57fae

Since that change, I disabled icu for 32-bit Windows builds because Qt 
apparently doesn't use it on those systems.

Looking at these pages, it's not clear to me what the status of icu is 
in Qt:

  https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5_ICU
  https://wiki.qt.io/Locale_Support_in_Qt_5

jwe