JCjcbhmr·Jan 20, 2025Submission
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msvcrt.lib
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neosmart / msvcrt.lib
msvcrt.lib
msvcrt.lib for linking against msvcrt.dll on all versions of Windows
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msvcrt.lib for linking against msvcrt.dll on all versions of Windows
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesI’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].
[0]: https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib
In WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for WindowsI don’t think msvcrt is exposed to link against in the DDK anymore. I maintain this, with the caveat that you really need to know what you’re doing: https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib
In The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is slowThis lets you build against the MSVCRT that ships with all versions of Windows: https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib
In Microsoft_craziness.h (2018)Favorited on GitHub for future reference (manually when needing to make a point). Awesome work!
I publish a universal msvcrt.lib that lets you use “standard C functions” without dependencies or static linking, but I’m quite sure it wouldn’t support Windows 3.x!
https://github.com/neosmart/msvcrt.lib
In Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10