Re: [Mingw-users] Linking Error with MSVC++ 6.0

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Friday 23 January 2009 15:08:42 Sukhbir Singh wrote:
>  About msvcr80.dll, i did not get you.
>  Please help me out.

msvcr80.dll is the version of Microsoft's C runtime library first 
published to accompany VS-2005, IIRC.  You will have an earlier 
version with your MSVC-6.0, and that version, compatible with the 
msvcrt.dll used as default by MinGW, lacks the _get_output_format() 
function, which first appeared in msvcr80.dll.

MinGW's enhanced printf() functions include support for the 2-digit 
exponent capability, also introduced in msvcr80.dll.  That means that 
our printf() functions need to call _get_output_format(), and to make 
that possible, even with the earlier MSVCRT versions, we add a stub 
to *our* import libraries for those older DLL versions.  Of course, 
Microsoft's implementations of those import libraries provide no 
such "forward compatibility" support.

Regards,
Keith.