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How to encode the MSVC CRT

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Review the Common Package Specification's current package metadata model and identify where MSVC CRT settings would need to be represented. Compare the required single- versus multi-threaded and debug versus non-debug distinctions, then define an encoding that package consumers can interpret consistently. Done means the specification clearly describes those CRT variants and how they are selected.

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Description

For MSVC compiled packages it's important to know which crt to use, (single vs multi-threaded, debug vs not) I don't see a way to encode that currently (unless I've missed something).

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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