The Windows C/C++ build toolchain is such a nightmare

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@AkshayTolwani I simply want to compile a library from a git repo

For every modern language this is like two shell commands, but here I have to manually download some dependent libs, because the download script is broken (of course).
Then I have to make sure they're all in the right path otherwise the linker will give me an error message about as useful as Egyptian hieroglyphics.

And I have to compile C# bindings as well and now the .net toolchain is telling me it can't find the SDK good lord why do these things have to be so complicated

Is there anything related to Microsoft that isn’t a nightmare?

@uyouthe @AkshayTolwani Vs code is half a nightmare, it'd be great if it was actually free software and not an electron application.

On another note: C# as a language is great, though I'm not too convinced about its surrounding (.net)

@AkshayTolwani or is it? while working with C++ it fucks up pretty regularly

sidenote: is there a compiler for .net IL?

@LotsOfCaffeine I fucking taught people C#. I fucking also used vscode. I fucking managed SoE setups.

Ms is still nightmare

@uyouthe not denying that but C# is less of a nightmare than whatever the hell visual c++ wants to be

@LotsOfCaffeine I agree

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I do not understand why vc++ is created.

@uyouthe

How about office tool like words or excel?

I feel MS focus more on business people and like to ignore developer's needs and wants.

@HitWRight *intense sweating*

@mr-user on God I hate using ms office tools

"Oh just word it's so much easier"

@mr-user they obviously have great functionality just because of how old they are but their stability is trash, there are memes about saving every second in word

That's not just Windows, that's the C and C++ ecosystem. I don't understand why no one has yet made anything remotely bearable because the current tools are garbage

@12bitfloat C/C++ tool chains do suck but my god windows' way makes it 10 times worse....

@LotsOfCaffeine True

Just install GCC/MingW, or Clang/MingW, and you're good to go. No Visual Shit of course. Oh, "make" would also be useful.