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From: Tor Lillqvist <tml AT iki DOT fi>
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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:28:42 +0300
To: "John Platts" <john_platts AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: [Mingw-users] A Mingw32 runtime library independent of MSVCRT.DLL
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John Platts writes:
 > Why do mingw32 users continue to use a runtime library dependent of 
 > MSVCRT.DLL?

Why not? People use the proprietary vendor-supplied C library on
Solaris, HP-UX, etc all the time, even if they use gcc as a compiler.

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