From: Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...> - 2010-08-08 03:45:59
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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Michael Plante <mic...@gm...> wrote: > Xiaofan Chen wrote: >>> I do not think it is a problem for other compilers. There is no >>> such thing as msvcrtd.dll used by MinGW. And Cygwin does >>> not really use msvcrt. The method of debugging is rather different. > > Hrm, ok, I didn't know that about cygwin. I'm still not sure about MinGW, > since, if it uses msvcrt, it would seem natural that it could also use > msvcrtd. Maybe doing so is less common? I tend to think it is really really uncommon. But yes MinGW supports linking to the debug dll. http://lists-archives.org/mingw-users/00126-mingw-msvc-md-mt-ml.html But apparently this is rather uncommon. Try Google "Mingw msvcrtd.dll" and there are very few hits. > The statement about "method of debugging" is kinda vague, and could cover > any number of things. I am just saying that linking to msvcrtd.dll (or other MS VC run-time debug dll) is rather uncommon outside MS compilers. -- Xiaofan |