XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10/29/2025 5:41 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:24:03 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Windows has Visual Studio Community Edition.   
   >   
   > Aka “Crippleware Edition”.   
   >   
      
   All you want from that, is the compiler and linker.   
   That is sufficient to do things like build Firefox.   
   For headers, you install an SDK, as that has   
   support for C headers and so on.   
      
   I have a second boot OS on this drive, which is   
   specifically for Visual Studio Community Edition.   
   Although I can run the compiler and linker from this   
   OS, using a script with all the necessary paths defined   
   in it.   
      
   A setup like that, is for situations where you have   
   a .proj file and a project you want to build, was   
   built on that platform. Then it's a natural fit to   
   load something into it. I've only written my own   
   code over there a couple of times. For my normal   
   programming needs ("60 line programs"), MinGW32 is   
   good enough for that. I find a couple stanzas of code   
   on the web, write some glue to join them together,   
   and have a little utility for myself. They   
   don't call me Printf Paul for nothing. Every second   
   statement is a printf(). Good times.   
      
      Paul   
      
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