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Can I link MSVCRT statically with mingw?

I have C program I compile with mingw on Windows. It works fine but requires MSVCRT.DLL. I want to link that statically (like I can do in Visual Studio). Is this possible?

I tried -static flag to gcc and it didn't make any change.

What about C++ program using also standard C++ library?

Solution

  • I believe that MinGW doesn't use the static runtime library for copyright reasons.

    You can maybe try to use newlib (http://sourceware.org/newlib/) to create an executable that doesn't link to msvcrt.dll