Re: [Mingw-users] What version of MSVCRT.DLL do you have?

[KHMan <kei...@gm...>]

On 5/18/2013 5:25 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I'm doing some research into determining at configure time what
> version of MSVCRT.DLL is actually available on a system.  I've created
> a small shell script for you to run that is attached.  What I need is
> some input from you as to whether or not this method could be used to
> create a m4 script for configure to use to set a MSVCRT_VERSION
> variable in config.h.
>
> The issue I'm trying to overcome is the system on XP doesn't have some
> functions and data structures in MSVCRT that Vista/Win7/Win8 etc have
> such as the stat structure being defined in stat.h.  It is quite
> maddening.  So if we can set MSVCRT_VERSION reliably based on data
> from MSVCRT.DLL itself we can overcome some of the harrowing issues.
>
> The value I get on my XP SP3 is 710.  The value I get on my Win7 laptop is 900.
>
> The values are (MajorLinkerVersion * 100) + MinorLinkerVersion where
> LinkerVersion refers to the version of MSVC that was used to create
> MSVCRT.DLL that exists on your system.

Windows XP SP2: 710
Windows XP SP3: 710

Plus one abomination:
Windows ME[1]: 600

[1] WinME on Virtual PC 2007 SP1, with KernelEx
     using rxvt (mintty failed), msvcrt.dll was in SYSTEM

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia