> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:04:11 +0100 > From: Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, mingw-w64-pub...@lists.sourceforge.net > > On Sunday 20 November 2022 16:45:55 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:53:48 +0100 > > > From: Pali Rohár via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > > > > > Linking a program against a specific runtime means the produced binary will > > not run on Windows systems older than the one where it was linked. Why is > > such a limitation a good idea, may I ask? > > It will run also on older Windows system if you install redistributable > runtime library. Which in most cases is already installed because other > programs use it.
Installing a redistributable is a nuisance, and dependence on non-system libraries might make the program non-free. > And why you want a new version? Because of better C99/C11 support which > is in ucrtbase.dll That comes with a price, though. > Note that with this option, you can also choose older version than the > default one (WinXP msvcrt.dll). So e.g. you can choose msvcrt20.dll or > crtdll.dll for older Windows version. Using the OS default MSVCRT already gets me that, at zero cost.
