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0 pointsfooker7mo ago0 comments

You can desugar all the modern stuff to windows api with first party DLLs

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pjmlp7mo ago· 3 in thread

First party DLLs have copyright.

fookerOP7mo ago

No, these are specifically ‘redistributables’.

In the rare case they aren’t, you just require the user to obtain it, wink and nod.

Dwedit7mo ago

Microsoft redistributables are just the standard library. Most of the rest of the new DLLs are not backed by any system calls, just by API calls. Except of course for the D3DKMT stuff, that stuff is the real system calls used by Direct3D.

zorked7mo ago

Typically in Microsoft redistributables there are terms in the license that says they can only be licensed for use with a Windows license.

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