If that can be useful, https://ossia.io ships on the store as a native Win32 mingw-based app which leverages the llvm-mingw ucrt toolchain maintained by Martin. I wrote a blog post about all the process a couple years ago: https://ossia.io/posts/msstore/
On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM Martin Storsjö <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2025, Kirill Makurin wrote: > > > If you look at gcc spec, you will see -lkernel32 following mingw-w64's > > -l flags. The issue is that this will cause mingw-w64's static code > > directly reference symbols from kernel32.dll, and not api sets linked > > with -lwindowsapp. Perfectly, we would want to replace this -lkernel32 > > with -lwindowsappcompat -lwindowsapp. However, there seems to be no > > simple way to achieve this. > > > > One way this can be achieved is by getting the specs with `gcc > > -dumpspecs`, modifying them (with sed, for example) and passing modified > > specs to gcc with -specs=. I see no simple way how this can be done with > > build systems like meson or cmake. This also would not work for clang. > > Yes, this is exactly how VLC did it, when building with GCC - they run > -dumpspecs, then edit the spec file and pass -specs= when compiling: > https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.21/extras/package/win32/build.sh?ref_type=tags#L227-239 > > In Clang, we check if the user specified -lwindowsapp - in that case, it > omits the built-in -lkernel32 and similar: > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/llvmorg-21.1.6/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/MinGW.cpp#L284-L290 > and > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/llvmorg-21.1.6/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/MinGW.cpp#L350-L362 > > (Similarly, in Clang, if you pass -lmsvcr*, -lucrt* or -lcrtdll, it omits > the default -lmsvcrt.) > > // Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
