@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ contempory distributions as well.)
4141
4242There are packages with two different choices of CRT (C runtime) - the
4343primary target is UCRT (the Universal C Runtime). The UCRT
44- is available preinstalled since Windows 10, but can be installed
44+ is available preinstalled since Windows 10, but can be
45+ [ installed] ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410 )
4546on top of Vista or newer. The other legacy alternative is ` msvcrt ` ,
4647which produces binaries for (and uses) msvcrt.dll, which is a
4748built-in component in all versions of Windows. This allows running
@@ -106,10 +107,12 @@ normal GCC/binutils based MinGW.
106107 should be freed by the same DLL that allocated it).
107108- The windres replacement, llvm-rc, isn't very mature and doesn't support
108109 everything that GNU windres does.
109- - The toolchain defaults to using the Universal CRT (which is only available
110- out of the box since Windows 10, but can be installed on Vista or newer)
111- and defaults to targeting Windows 7. These defaults can be changed in
112- ` build-mingw-w64.sh ` though.
110+ - The toolchain defaults to using the Universal CRT and targeting Windows 7.
111+ These defaults can be changed in ` build-mingw-w64.sh ` though. The Universal
112+ CRT is only available out of the box since Windows 10, but can be
113+ [ installed] ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410 )
114+ on Vista or newer. For x86, there are also releases that run on
115+ msvcrt.dll.
113116- The toolchain uses Windows native TLS support, which doesn't work properly
114117 until Windows Vista. This has no effect on code not using thread local
115118 variables.
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