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When compiling C++ files, Zig unconditionally passes -nostdinc++ and, if link_libcpp is set, adds its bundled libc++/libc++abi include paths as replacements (see Compilation.zig). On MSVC targets this conflicts with the MSVC C++ runtime headers (vcruntime_typeinfo.h, vcruntime_exception.h, etc.), causing compilation failures in SIMD C++ code. The fix is to use linkLibC instead of linkLibCpp on MSVC. Zig always passes -nostdinc to strip default search paths, but LibCDirs.detect re-adds the MSVC SDK include directories, which contain both C and C++ standard library headers. This gives us proper access to MSVC's own <optional>, <iterator>, <cstddef>, etc. without the libc++ conflicts. For the package builds (highway, simdutf, utfcpp) this means switching from linkLibCpp to linkLibC on MSVC. For SharedDeps and GhosttyZig, linkLibC is already called separately, so we just skip linkLibCpp.