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readme: Add links for downloading and installing UCRT on older Windows versions
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There are packages with two different choices of CRT (C runtime) - the
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primary target is UCRT (the Universal C Runtime). The UCRT
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is available preinstalled since Windows 10, but can be installed
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is available preinstalled since Windows 10, but can be
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[installed](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410)
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on top of Vista or newer. The other legacy alternative is `msvcrt`,
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which produces binaries for (and uses) msvcrt.dll, which is a
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built-in component in all versions of Windows. This allows running
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should be freed by the same DLL that allocated it).
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- The windres replacement, llvm-rc, isn't very mature and doesn't support
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everything that GNU windres does.
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- The toolchain defaults to using the Universal CRT (which is only available
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out of the box since Windows 10, but can be installed on Vista or newer)
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and defaults to targeting Windows 7. These defaults can be changed in
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`build-mingw-w64.sh` though.
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- The toolchain defaults to using the Universal CRT and targeting Windows 7.
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These defaults can be changed in `build-mingw-w64.sh` though. The Universal
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CRT is only available out of the box since Windows 10, but can be
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[installed](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410)
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on Vista or newer. For x86, there are also releases that run on
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msvcrt.dll.
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- The toolchain uses Windows native TLS support, which doesn't work properly
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until Windows Vista. This has no effect on code not using thread local
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variables.

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