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not care what the extension is](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/link-input-files?view=vs-2019),
so specifying `libfoo.a` instead of `foo.lib` does not change the workflow,
and is an improvement since it's less ambiguous.
+1. Projects built with the MinGW compiler are fully compatible with
+ MSVC as long as they use the same CRT (e.g. UCRT with MSYS2).
+ These projects also name their static libraries `libfoo.a`.
If, for some reason, you really need your project to output static
libraries of the form `foo.lib` when building with MSVC, you can set