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Alternatively, there's this:
Install Visual Studio Build Tools into a container to support a consistent build system | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/build...
I'm just asking, but is there really a need for a native programs anymore? Where I worked a decade ago, we started porting all our native programs over to the browser and this was when MVC beta was just being released. At this point with Electron and Tauri, is there even a need to write a native program Now with AI, I would think that porting a native program to the browser wouldn't be the chore it once was.
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Clang is the better alternative to MinGW because it can use standard Windows libraries and avoids the need for additional runtime.
I use MingW without any extra libs (no msys), it just uses the ancient msvcrt.dll that is present in all Windows versions, so my programs work even on Windows 2000. Additionally the cross-compiler on Linux also produces binaries with no extra runtime requirements.
Compared to older Mingw64 environments those link with the latest UCRT so you get almost the same style executable as Visual Studio.
The only difference for C is that it uses Mingw exception handling and global initialization code, and it uses Itanium ABI for C++.
Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.
I don't understand how open source projects can insist on requiring a proprietary compiler.
Perhaps winget is enough? winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools
Toolchains on linux are not clear from dependency hell either - ever install an npm package that needs cmake underneath? glibc dependencies that can't be resolved because you need two different versions simultaneously in the same build somehow... python in another realm here as well. That shiny c++ project that needs a bleeding edge boost version that is about 6 months away from being included in your package manager…
Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.
One day I decided to port my text editor to Windows. Since it depends on pcre2 and treesitter, these two libraries had to be provided by the system. In the span of ~2hrs I didn't manage to find a way to please Zig compiler to notice "system" libraries to link against. Perhaps I'm too spoiled by installing a system wide dependency in a single command. Or Windows took a wrong turn a couple of decades ago and is very ho…
I'm just asking, but is there really a need for a native programs anymore? Where I worked a decade ago, we started porting all our native programs over to the browser and this was when MVC beta was just being released. At this point with Electron and Tauri, is there even a need to write a native program Now with AI, I would think that porting a native program to the browser wouldn't be the chore it once was.
> is there really a need for a native programs anymore As long as you don't give a shit about the fact that your baseline memory consumption is now 500MB instead of 25MB, and that 80% of your CPU time is wasted on running javascript through a JIT and rendering HTML instead of doing logic, no. If you don't give a shit about your users or their time, there's indeed no longer a need to write native programs.
funny how Electron apps tend to have many more users than their native "performant" counterparts, isn't it?