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Can I bind MSVCRT statically with mingw?

I have a C program that I am compiling using mingw on Windows. It works fine, but requires MSVCRT.DLL . I want to link this statically (as I can do in Visual Studio). Is it possible?

I tried the -static flag before gcc and it made no changes.

What about a C ++ program that also uses the standard C ++ library?

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I believe that MinGW does not use a static runtime library for copyright reasons.

You might try to use newlib ( http://sourceware.org/newlib/ ) to create an executable that does not reference msvcrt.dll

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After spending some time looking for this, I stumbled upon this post , introducing the incomplete Mingw32 Alternate C Runtime Library . However, it is not ready for use, and the developer seems to have abandoned it. Link to the main page here .

Posting this answer here, hoping that it will be useful to people who will come in the future in the future.

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This does not answer the question "how to avoid binding to MSVCRT.DLL", but if you are here for the more general question "How to link statically with MinGW" ...:

Connect with gcc -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ and you will not need libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll

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