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  • Re: Microsoft woes

    From Michael S@21:1/5 to Malcolm McLean on Sun Mar 17 12:01:53 2024
    On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:02:40 +0000
    Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

    Life goes on it's merry way independedent of Usenet and programming,
    and I can now sleep at my own house once more, and I dusted off a
    Windows machine which had been laid up for four years. And of course
    I wanted to simply compile the flood fill code and run some quick
    tests.

    And what a nightmare. The whole evening getting the machine back in
    the land of the living. What should be routine - compile an ANSI C
    program which calls the standard library, is just not made routine.
    3GB of components had to be downloaded, and a runtime library
    obtained and downloaded specially. Then the project setting need
    fiddling with in unexpected and not very obvious ways.


    It's much easier if you don't insist on using Visual Studio GUI.
    cl.exe is still the same cl.exe with the same options.
    Downloads are nonsensically huge, that's true. But that was already
    true four years ago.

    Utter, utter unacceptable chaos and difficulty and hurdles.
    Considering that 4 years ago it was set up to compile a C program.

    What prevented you from using existing setup?

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  • From fir@21:1/5 to Malcolm McLean on Sun Mar 24 12:28:31 2024
    Malcolm McLean wrote:
    Life goes on it's merry way independedent of Usenet and programming, and
    I can now sleep at my own house once more, and I dusted off a Windows
    machine which had been laid up for four years. And of course I wanted to simply compile the flood fill code and run some quick tests.

    And what a nightmare. The whole evening getting the machine back in the
    land of the living. What should be routine - compile an ANSI C program
    which calls the standard library, is just not made routine. 3GB of
    components had to be downloaded, and a runtime library obtained and downloaded specially. Then the project setting need fiddling with in unexpected and not very obvious ways.

    Utter, utter unacceptable chaos and difficulty and hurdles. Considering
    that 4 years ago it was set up to compile a C program.

    so call it a blota/sh*t etc as i would probably do and dlownload mingw
    (to c:\MinGw)

    then write a compile.bat with such

    set PATH=c:\mingw\bin;

    g++ program.c -Wl,--subsystem,windows -lgdi32 -o lore.exe -w -s
    -O2 -fmerge-all-constants -fno-rtti -fno-threadsafe-statics -L. -l"green.fire" -lwinmm

    pause

    create program.c file (with total commander ofcourse and your favorite
    editor) ..then run compile.bat (by pressing enter in toital commanedr)
    to compile, ..run lore.exe to run

    very conveniant environment on windows

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