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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br/>
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<li>Microsoft Windows</li>
- <li>Microsoft Visual C++</li>
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- <li><a href="#HowToBuildCygwin">Cygwin</a> is required when other versions
- of Microsoft Visual C++ and other compilers are used to build ICU.</li>
+ <li>Microsoft Visual C++ (see the ICU download page for the currently compatible version)</li>
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+ <li>NOTE: <a href="#HowToBuildCygwin">Cygwin</a> is required if using a version of MSVC other than the one
+ compatible with the supplied project files or if other compilers are used to build ICU. (e.g. GCC)</li>
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<p>The steps are:</p>