Universal C Runtime can also be installed on earlier versions of Windows (see: Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows).
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Since Windows 10 Universal C Runtime (UCRT) is available as an alternative to MSVCRT. Traditionally the MinGW-w64 compiler used MSVCRT as runtime library, which is available on all versions of Windows. You may even want to consider using the latest snapshot version. GCC is always very quick to implement new C++ standards.
MinGW-w64 is a free and open source C library for targetting Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is a free and open source compiler for C and C++ (and other languages like Objective-C, Fortran, D). In short: it's a free C and C++ compiler for Microsoft Windows.
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