WinSxS

A hell of a solution to the DLL hell.

I haven't used Windows since Win2k, but now I want to compile Symta for Windows and this was like wut? Windows 7 manages to include every dlls from every Windows version before it? Windows became order of magnitude more retarded than I remember it to be. What DLL should I compile against?

Use WinDDK and link against msvcrt.dll by using WinDDK\<ddkversion>\lib\wxp\i386\msvcrt_winxp.obj
Then it will run on anything from Windows XP - 8, and require no vcredist or extra shit because msvcrt.dll is always shipped by default.