[Mingw-users] iostreams thread-safety & msvcrt.dll [re-post]

[Jim B. <Jim@JC-Bell.com>]

(I'm re-posting this from twelve days ago as it didn't get a response. If someone also on the MinGW-Dvlpr list considers it forward-worthy (is it?), I'd appreciate that.)

I've come across this iostreams thread safety issue in a variety of
situations under WindowsXP, and find that trying to work around it is a
huge problem:

<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2843440&group_id=2435&atid=102435>

I can't find a new version of msvcrt.dll for XP.  Further, it seems deprecated,
superseded by msvcr80.dll, msvcr90.dll, etc. for newer Microsoft build
environments.

Anyone know how to replace msvcrt.dll for MinGW builds? Any other
suggestions? 

Thanks in advance,
-Jim