diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d036f7456..954f35e34 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ if(MINGW)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG} -Wa,-mbig-obj")
   set(EXTRA_LIBRARIES mswsock;ws2_32;iphlpapi;crypt32;bcrypt)
   if(DEPENDS)
-    set(ICU_LIBRARIES icuio icui18n icuuc icudata icutu iconv)
+    set(ICU_LIBRARIES iconv)
   else()
     set(ICU_LIBRARIES icuio icuin icuuc icudt icutu iconv)
   endif()
diff --git a/contrib/depends/packages/icu4c.mk b/contrib/depends/packages/icu4c.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 58ae637b0..000000000
--- a/contrib/depends/packages/icu4c.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-package=icu4c
-$(package)_version=55.2
-$(package)_download_path=https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-55-2/
-$(package)_file_name=$(package)-55_2-src.tgz
-$(package)_sha256_hash=eda2aa9f9c787748a2e2d310590720ca8bcc6252adf6b4cfb03b65bef9d66759
-$(package)_patches=icu-001-dont-build-static-dynamic-twice.patch
-
-define $(package)_set_vars
-  $(package)_build_opts=CFLAGS="$($(package)_cflags) $($(package)_cppflags) -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0 -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_COMBINED_IMPLEMENTATION -fPIC -DENABLE_STATIC=YES -DPGKDATA_MODE=static"
-endef
-
-define $(package)_config_cmds
-  patch -p1 < $($(package)_patch_dir)/icu-001-dont-build-static-dynamic-twice.patch &&\
-  mkdir builda &&\
-  mkdir buildb &&\
-  cd builda &&\
-  sh ../source/runConfigureICU Linux &&\
-  make &&\
-  cd ../buildb &&\
-  sh ../source/runConfigureICU MinGW --enable-static=yes --disable-shared --disable-layout --disable-layoutex --disable-tests --disable-samples --prefix=$(host_prefix) --with-cross-build=`pwd`/../builda &&\
-  $(MAKE) $($(package)_build_opts)
-endef
-
-define $(package)_stage_cmds
-  cd buildb &&\
-  $(MAKE) $($(package)_build_opts) DESTDIR=$($(package)_staging_dir) install lib/*
-endef
diff --git a/contrib/depends/packages/packages.mk b/contrib/depends/packages/packages.mk
index d2d1eca85..ea4a0effd 100644
--- a/contrib/depends/packages/packages.mk
+++ b/contrib/depends/packages/packages.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ifneq ($(host_arch),riscv64)
 linux_packages += unwind
 endif
 
-mingw32_packages = icu4c sodium $(hardware_packages)
+mingw32_packages = sodium $(hardware_packages)
 mingw32_native_packages = $(hardware_native_packages)
 
 ifneq ($(build_os),darwin)
diff --git a/contrib/depends/patches/icu4c/icu-001-dont-build-static-dynamic-twice.patch b/contrib/depends/patches/icu4c/icu-001-dont-build-static-dynamic-twice.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bbd4e99e7..000000000
--- a/contrib/depends/patches/icu4c/icu-001-dont-build-static-dynamic-twice.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-Don't build object files twice
-
-When passed --enable-static and --enable-shared, icu will generate
-both a shared and a static version of its libraries.
-
-However, in order to do so, it builds each and every object file
-twice: once with -fPIC (for the shared library), and once without
--fPIC (for the static library). While admittedly building -fPIC for a
-static library generates a slightly suboptimal code, this is what all
-the autotools-based project are doing. They build each object file
-once, and they use it for both the static and shared libraries.
-
-icu builds the object files for the shared library as .o files, and
-the object files for static library as .ao files. By simply changing
-the suffix of object files used for static libraries to ".o", we tell
-icu to use the ones built for the shared library (i.e, with -fPIC),
-and avoid the double build of icu.
-
-On a fast build server, this brings the target icu build from
-3m41.302s down to 1m43.926s (approximate numbers: some other builds
-are running on the system at the same time).
-
-Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-
-Index: b/source/config/mh-linux
-===================================================================
---- a/source/config/mh-linux
-+++ b/source/config/mh-linux
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
- ## Shared object suffix
- SO = so
- ## Non-shared intermediate object suffix
--STATIC_O = ao
-+STATIC_O = o
- 
- ## Compilation rules
- %.$(STATIC_O): $(srcdir)/%.c