Re:WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows
by ComputerGuru on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:14PM
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I’m always surprised to remember that mingw32/64 has a dependency on MSVCRT (or now UCRT, I guess).
Given how sparse the C standard library is and how much effort went into/goes into mingw, Cygwin, msys2, and co; you’d assume they would just use the native Win32 APIs and supplement with unversioned/undocumented plain MSVCRT.DLL that is always available on all versions of Windows [0].
Given how sparse the C standard library is and how much effort went into/goes into mingw, Cygwin, msys2, and co; you’d assume they would just use the native Win32 APIs and supplement with unversioned/undocumented plain MSVCRT.DLL that is always available on all versions of Windows [0].
[0]: https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib