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Re:Integrating Zig and SwiftUI by aidenn0 on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:04PM (#36116867)
I thought msvcrt shipped with windows as early as XP; was I wrong?
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Re:Integrating Zig and SwiftUI by kazinator on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:02PM (#36118080)
Even earlier; but that's a private system library you're not supposed to use.

Raymond Chen explains it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=12...

Microsoft's new Universal C Run Time addresses the problem of there not being a C library on Windows that is for public use (every compiler vendor providing their own).

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