From 679b67fee662acf52b2b1af175101ee323ae7d60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:56:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Don't explicitly link against msvcrt when using MinGW.

The latest releases of MinGW generate hard linker errors
when msvcrt is specified explicitly.  It will still link
against this library implicitly anyways, so specifying it
isn't needed.
---
 win32/makefile.mk | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk
index 6549134..77e1363 100644
--- a/win32/makefile.mk
+++ b/win32/makefile.mk
@@ -493,7 +493,10 @@ LOCDEFS		= -DPERLDLL -DPERL_CORE
 SUBSYS		= console
 CXX_FLAG	= -xc++
 
-LIBC		= -lmsvcrt
+# Current releases of MinGW 5.1.4 (as of 11-Aug-2009) will fail to link
+# correctly if -lmsvcrt is specified explicitly.
+LIBC		=
+#LIBC		= -lmsvcrt
 
 # same libs as MSVC
 LIBFILES	= $(CRYPT_LIB) $(LIBC) \
-- 
2.7.4