Re: mingw default crt is surprising

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 07:24:00PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> Microsoft do make free UCRT downloads available for Vista, 7, 8 (and
> whatever Windows Servers versions those map to), so it would probably
> be good to add a note and link to the mingw-w64 DESCR -
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-c0514201-7fe6-95a3-b0a5-287930f3560c
> 
> Without that I'd definitely have said make a mingw-w64-msvcrt package.
> 
> With it... I'd still be slightly more inclined to make a
> mingw-w64-msvcrt package over a PKG_OPTION, as people may have an
> existing setup and want to target msvcrt over ucrt, or that special
> special embedded XP system which "they will migrate away from really
> really this year"... but with that note in its DESCR pointing people
> at the ucrt version for the default case on Vista and later :)
> 
> David

I was able to find a download for XP too. So I'm less concerned now. ;)

Still, not nice to have to install a libc when you've already got the OS.