from what I see this is only used for encoding/decoding and the README says "Mainly useful as an alternative to iconv on Windows. Unnecessary on most other systems." Since this is the only user of icu in base this also helps the installer size.
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MSYS2-packages
Package scripts for MSYS2.
To build these, run msys2_shell.cmd then from the bash prompt. Packages from the base-devel package is an implicit build time dependency. Make sure it is installed before attempting to build any package:
pacman -S --needed base-devel
cd ${package-name}
makepkg
To install the built package(s).
pacman -U ${package-name}*.pkg.tar.xz
License
MSYS2-packages is licensed under BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License. A full copy of the license is provided in LICENSE.
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