Update 03/11/2016: I have patched the sources to fix the problem mentioned in my original post. I have submitted that patch also to ICU upstream ticket: 12840 The latest ICU 58.1 is compiled with MSVC 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015. The precompiled static libraries are linked against the static MSVC runtimes (/MT instead of […]