mingw defines __MSVCRT_VERSION__

[Alexey Pushkin]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> may be it's not the right place to ask and would be better to move to
>> mingw mailing list, but it's the right version?
>> ie. the current runtime really not support __MSVCRT_VERSION__ >= 0x0601?
>> thanks.
> 
> No, it's just that the default version is 0x0600 to be compatible with old
> installed versions of msvcrt.dll.
> 
> You can compile with -D__MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0601, but then expect trouble on
> systems which still ship the ancient 0x0600 version (e.g. Window$ 95 OSR 2,
> I guess - the original Window$ 95 didn't include msvcrt.dll at all). I'm
> not sure when the 0x0601 version was introduced nor whether it's worth
> caring about the systems which shipped the 0x0600 version and never got
> their msvcrt.dll upgraded by a newer M$VC application.
> 

why cares about win95 :-)