On Friday 09 May 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kornél Pál kornelpal@gmail.com wrote:
Currently it's very unlikely that Mono will have it's own MSVCRTs (I mean mixed-mode versions) in the near future. Do you know whether they are redistributable?
Yes, but the license is restrictive, and you can't redistribute them with wine or mono, only with applications. When running apps that forgot to bundle them, I often use this script to download them from microsoft: http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
But Wine has its own increasingly useful implementation of msvcrt, at least the part that uses the C api. (The C++ api is difficult for us because it has to be written in C; g++ uses a different ABI than Microsoft C++.)
The GCC people might be working on that, e.g. to enable free software library developers on Windows to use their tool chain for providing binary packages.
Cheers, Kevin