On Thu, 4 Sep 2025, Pali Rohár wrote:
Hello, I would like to ask, what do you think about adding a new webpage
on mingw-w64.org which would contain information about all available CRT
DLL libraries against which mingw-w64 can link EXE or DLL and where to
download them (links to MS redistributable binaries)? I think that this
information can be useful as currently it is slightly harder to find
where are older redistributable binaries, and on which Windows versions
which CRT DLL can work.
I'm a little sceptical to the value of this.
The main point of how mingw-w64 is supposed to operate, is to link against
a CRT DLL which already exists on your version of Windows. The main
exception where it is relevant to link to a redistributable, is for the
UCRT redistributable.
For the other numbered msvcr DLLs, I don't find this a thing we need to
advertise. They don't ship with Windows itself. And the case where you'd
_want_ to link with it, is a situation where you already have the DLL for
other reasons.
So I find it mostly just misleading/unnecessary to advertise this info on
the webpage.
As internal info somewhere, for people working on the CRT interfaces,
sure, it can be good to have the info somewhere.
// Martin
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