https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AerocatiaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:24:08 +0000Yeah, wanting to support a vanilla installation is a valid reason to stick to MSVCRT. Just watch out for those silent footguns like the %zu format specifier not existing, haha. I have not tried One Core API myself either as I personally draw the line where it is reasonable to expect people to use officially released runtimes.

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:27:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722212Aerocatiahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722212FYI if you have the MSVC redistributable 14.27.29114 you can use UCRT executables built with modern Mingw-W64 on Windows XP, and curl 8.18.0 will work too (microsoft removed the link but I found it on the PC gaming wiki). I never had to deal with GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation() for my stuff, but maybe it only is a problem if you use the related code and don't static link libstdc++?

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