diff --git a/System/Console/ANSI/Windows/Foreign.hs b/System/Console/ANSI/Windows/Foreign.hs
--- a/System/Console/ANSI/Windows/Foreign.hs
+++ b/System/Console/ANSI/Windows/Foreign.hs
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
     failIfFalse_ "scrollConsoleScreenBuffer" $ cScrollConsoleScreenBuffer handle ptr_scroll_rectangle ptr_clip_rectangle (unpackCOORD destination_origin) ptr_fill
 
 
--- This essential function comes from msvcrt.  It's OK to depend on msvcrt since GHC's base package does.
+-- This essential function comes from the C runtime system. It is certainly provided by msvcrt, and also seems to be provided by the mingw C library - hurrah!
 foreign import ccall unsafe "_get_osfhandle" cget_osfhandle :: IOBase.FD -> IO HANDLE
 
 -- | This bit is all highly dubious.  The problem is that we want to output ANSI to arbitrary Handles rather than forcing
diff --git a/ansi-terminal.cabal b/ansi-terminal.cabal
--- a/ansi-terminal.cabal
+++ b/ansi-terminal.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                ansi-terminal
-Version:             0.5.4
+Version:             0.5.5
 Cabal-Version:       >= 1.2
 Category:            User Interfaces
 Synopsis:            Simple ANSI terminal support, with Windows compatibility
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         if os(windows)
                 Build-Depends:          Win32 >= 2.0
                 Cpp-Options:            -DWINDOWS
-                Extra-Libraries:        "kernel32", "msvcrt"
+                Extra-Libraries:        "kernel32"
                 Other-Modules:          System.Console.ANSI.Windows
                                         System.Console.ANSI.Windows.Foreign
                                         System.Console.ANSI.Windows.Emulator
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         if os(windows)
                 Build-Depends:          Win32 >= 2.0
                 Cpp-Options:            -DWINDOWS
-                Extra-Libraries:        "kernel32", "msvcrt"
+                Extra-Libraries:        "kernel32"
                 Other-Modules:          System.Console.ANSI.Windows
                                         System.Console.ANSI.Windows.Foreign
                                         System.Console.ANSI.Windows.Emulator