Re: [PATCH 1/2] vcruntime140: Add the new MSVC 2015 compiler specific DLL.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Martin Storsjö  writes:
> So unless it's a really simple function, it ends up pulling in most of
> the msvcrt internals.
>
> For the real implementation, I'd guess it uses most things from
> ucrtbase, instead of having a separate full crt state within both
> DLLs. But I'm not sure I'm ready to take on such a challenge.

That's another reason for avoiding it. Since applications will most
likely use both, you can't duplicate the implementation. You'll need
vcruntime to import ucrtbase somehow.