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So you don't want to use the standard C library with your program.

Than you have to implement all necessary functionality provided by that library and required by your application yourself. The common method to do such things is to place such functions in a library to be re-used by other projects. As a result, you will have your own standard C library (or a sub set) when using the same function declarations (which makes sense). The LIBCTINY mentioned in your article link is such an implementation.

The StringCch... functions mentioned above are just MS specific extensions to the standard library providing safe and ANSI/Unicode operations. If you have a look at StrSafe.h where they are defined, you will notice that they use the standard C library functions. So you have to implement the used functions when not using the default library.

You may search further for some Windows API function that can perform a required operation. The FormatMessage function (Windows)[^] is a candidate but did not support floating point values. However, it allows passing a pre-formatted floating point argument as string. So it may be sufficient to have a function that converts a floating point number to a string.

As far as I know the Windows API did not provide such a function. I guess there is an internal / undocumented one. But that might not be available.

So the solution is to write your own. As starting point you may have a look at some C standard library source. Candidates are for example The GNU C Library[^] and diet libc - a libc optimized for small size[^].

Finally you should know that your program will use a special standard library version when calling Windows API functions because the OS contains it's own implementations of required functions.
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