Re:OxiPNG: PNG optimizer written in Rust
by userbinator on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:20PM
(#15197684)
MS does supply the MSVCRT.DLL with Windows, and even link their apps with it, but then said you (as in, non-MS apps) weren't supposed to use it in lieu of the MSVCRxxx (and now, the even worse "split the libc into several dozen pieces, each in its own file"[1]) mess.
Most developers grudgingly obeyed, bloating their apps either through static linking, including a copy of the set of runtime DLLs, or the .MSI installer in their own distribution.
But then there are those of us who saw through that ruse, gave MS the proverbial finger and linked with the "system MSVCRT.DLL". The result being tiny, highly portable binaries which don't require any installation or dependencies beyond what Windows already has.
Most developers grudgingly obeyed, bloating their apps either through static linking, including a copy of the set of runtime DLLs, or the .MSI installer in their own distribution.
But then there are those of us who saw through that ruse, gave MS the proverbial finger and linked with the "system MSVCRT.DLL". The result being tiny, highly portable binaries which don't require any installation or dependencies beyond what Windows already has.
[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2014/06/10/the-great...