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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by pjmlp on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:08AM (#49360435)
That was introduced in Windows 10, Windows history is a long one.

Usually Windows developers will use Win32 directly, ZeroMemory() instead of memset(), and so on.

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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by delta_p_delta_x on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:10AM (#49360459)
Indeed. I was just about to point out the fact that the CRT only provides the C standard library; Windows applications can run perfectly fine without one by linking only to the Windows API DLLs.
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