[Mingw-users] Problem with msvcrt60 vs. msvcr71 vs. strdup/free

[Danny Smith]

From: "Gerhard Haering"
>Is there any way I can force mingw to not link in msvcr for things
>like strdup?

mdkdir /mingw/lib/msvcr71
cp -f libmsvcr71.a  /mingw/lib/msvcr71/libmsvcrt.a
gcc ${OBJECTS} -L /mingw/lib/msvcr71

Or you could hand edit gcc's specs file, replacing -lmsvcrt with -lwhatever..

Patches to facilitate switching to an alternative msvcr*.dll could be submitted
to gcc.

Danny