Standard C library in mingW

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I have installed mingW to use gcc, platform windows 7. I am trying to locate the standard C library libc.a in mingW folder. no luck.. is it stored in some other name?

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MinGW does not build against glibc, it builds against msvcrt. As such, it uses libmsvcrtXX.a instead.