On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:14 AM, NightStrike <[email protected]> wrote: > I could forsee an issue where future OS's contain an extremely > stripped down msvcrt.dll, forcing users to have a copy of the VS crt > dll to do anything worthwhile. In this case, ironcrate will become a > necessity. But that's not MS's direction at this point, IIUC. So, we > don't have anything to worry about yet.
Even then, the system will probably have a new baseline VS crt and MinGW and MinGW-w64 may actually drop the dependency on msvcrt.dll and then use the new baseline VS crt. Take note WDK8 (for driver development) will rely on VS11 and thus rely on the VS11 C runtime. So you would expect Windows 8 and future Windows to have VS11 C runtime. And VS12 C runtime will probably be compatible with VS11 C runtime. Previous WDK versions ship with a compiler and build drivers does not rely on VS C runtime but rather system's msvcrt.dll. -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
