mingw and msvcrt.dll confussion

I am coding for winapi in mingw

One thing i stil not fully understood is vc redistribuable, I got a whole pack of question to it

Some say afaik that such program need msvcrt.dll

1) is it the same lib needed for bot c++ and c compilaton? 2) is this avaliable on all targets of cilents? 3) must i redistrubute it? can i redistribute it? 4) can i easily get rid of this external dependency? 5) is there other compiler that will allow me not to carry such unpleasant external dependency? (as i vauelly see something is wrong with it it is probably not core system lib i heard and it is yet not my easy to free use and redistribute lib)

I see something wrong is here as i would like to produce no dependency small exes only calling system winapi and if i use some like clib functions i would prefer it economically and statically compiled in not damn 'third side' dependencies

some advices maybe at this point?