[fpc-pascal] $LINKLIB MSVCRT on windows/osx

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, md at rpzdesign.com said:
> Has anybody got a clue how to statically link the windows c run time with
> lazarus/freepascal on Windows 7/8  x32 or x64?

No idea.
 
> Looking at gdbint.pp, there are all sorts of references to {$LINKLIB 
> libmsvcrt.a}
> 
> But there is only libmsvcrt.a when I install MingW 4.8.1 compiler
> 
> Since forum.lazarus.freepascal.org is no longer available, any prior 
> posts about this topic are gone.

Those afaik are not about statically linking msvcrt, but about the gdb
C (and the C/Unix libs it depends on) needing this library to link to 
the msvcrt DLL. IOW it is an import library.