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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:47:34+00:00

I’m testing an application using Qt 4.7.3 compiled with MinGW on a clean XP

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I’m testing an application using Qt 4.7.3 compiled with MinGW on a clean XP virtual box. The application wasn’t working and after much grief, I traced the error to needing to download the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable. I downloaded this and it worked. Something doesn’t seem right here, shouldn’t I not need any VC++ libraries since I’m using MinGW? Could it be a problem with my compilation? I should mention that I’m not using qmake to build.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The dependency on MSVCRT.DLL is due to MinGW itself. To quote mingw.org..

    MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is
    suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and
    which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs. (It does depend
    on a number of DLLs provided by Microsoft themselves, as components of
    the operating system; most notable among these is MSVCRT.DLL, the
    Microsoft C runtime library.

    Also see: Should I redistribute msvcrt.dll with my application?

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