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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 02.07.2021, 17:43

> > > But ultimately I'd rather see just msvcrt.dll
>
> Why would you want your compiled apps to depend on the runtime library for
> Microsoft Visual C? They should only depend on the operating system
> libraries, not on the C libraries of another brand of compiler.

msvcrt.dll is provided with every version of
Windows since Win95, and is effectively part
of the OS. That's how mingw32 works.

PDOS/386 provides its own msvcrt.dll, built
using PDPCLIB. Which incidentally works on
Freedos+HX.

BFN. Paul.

 

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