One of the options when building C/C++ on Windows is to use Visual Studio Build Tools as the toolchain. There's no need to install the full IDE in order to get the build tools. It is possible to get the setup package at: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ Open the setup package and click in Continue. Once the Visual … Continue reading Visual Studio Build Tools
When handling archiving files on Windows I like to use 7-Zip given it is fast and supports several formats. Download can be done in the official website: https://www.7-zip.org/ Installation is very simple. Since in my case I'm running Windows 64-bit, the first download option is the correct one. In the first window we select the … Continue reading 7-Zip for Windows and LZMA SDK
I think Windows 11 brought a lot of things to like and also some annoying details that I just prefer stayed the way it was in previous versions of the OS. One those those things is the classic context menu. When available, I usually set the installer of applications I use frequently to include the … Continue reading Windows 11 – Classic Context Menu
Perl is a interpreted language that can be used for creating scripts for various usages. It is a required component in the toolchain for compiling, for example, OpenSSL in Windows. General details on Perl can be found at https://www.perl.org/ where in the download area we have 2 main releases highlighted: Strawberry Perl and ActiveState Perl. … Continue reading Strawberry Perl
In my opinion, a big update happened in Windows 10 that remained in Windows 11, which was the transition from Command Prompt to Windows Terminal as default terminal client application. There are several ways of accessing Windows Terminal, but the one I use the most is by right-clicking in the start menu icon and selecting … Continue reading Windows 11 – Windows Terminal, PowerShell 7 and Oh My Posh
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