2 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index d31727f8f..7e6802c76 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ repository = "https://github.com/denoland/deno"
 path = "lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-align-data = "0.1"
 anyhow = "1.0.38"
 futures = "0.3.12"
 indexmap = "1.6.1"
diff --git a/core/runtime.rs b/core/runtime.rs
index f6d0ab5a6..c7a945717 100644
--- a/core/runtime.rs
+++ b/core/runtime.rs
@@ -200,12 +200,10 @@ impl JsRuntime {
     static DENO_INIT: Once = Once::new();
     DENO_INIT.call_once(|| {
       // Include 10MB ICU data file.
-      assert!(v8::icu::set_common_data(align_data::include_aligned!(
-        align_data::Align16,
-        "icudtl.dat"
-      ))
-      .is_ok());
-
+      #[repr(C, align(16))]
+      struct ICUData([u8; 10413584]);
+      static ICU_DATA: ICUData = ICUData(*include_bytes!("icudtl.dat"));
+      v8::icu::set_common_data(&ICU_DATA.0).unwrap();
       unsafe { v8_init() };
     });