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Furs

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Furs 13 Aug 2018, 12:27

revolution wrote:

Yes, MSVCRT.DLL has been included with Windows since forever. But it isn't part of the Windows system. It is just an interface DLL for programs written in C to be able to use the C standard library functions when running in Windows. If you want to read the documentation for MSVCRT you have to go to the C related pages to see how to use it. The normal Windows documentation doesn't address it.

msvcrt was "promoted" to "System DLL" so it's actually part of Windows now (I think around W2k era). What this means is that it's actually required for your system to work, as other system DLLs presumably depend on it nowadays.

But that's only msvcrt.dll -- all the other ones are redistributables still.

13 Aug 2018, 12:27

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

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revolution 13 Aug 2018, 12:34

I see it as much a part of the system as Solitaire. You can still use all of the Windows system without having to know anything about solitaire or msvcrt.dll.

13 Aug 2018, 12:34

DimonSoft

Joined: 03 Mar 2010
Posts: 1228
Location: Belarus

DimonSoft 13 Aug 2018, 16:02

I love Raymond’s blog!

Windows is not an MFC delivery channel
Windows is not a .NET Framework delivery channel either

and finally…

Windows is not a Microsoft Visual C/C++ Run-Time delivery channel

13 Aug 2018, 16:02

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