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I recently started a project with MinGW just to avoid using Visual Studio. I have a fairly beefy machine, but VS still takes forever to load.
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
I recently started a project with MinGW just to avoid using Visual Studio. I have a fairly beefy machine, but VS still takes forever to load.
- xvilka 9y agoSo far from my experience if you use C/C++ project you can: 1. Either use Mingw-W64, which is "closer" to WinAPI for compilation for Windows platforms, also more actively developed 2. Use the better build system. So far, I think Meson (+ Ninja to actually build) is very easy and fast even for the complex projects. Moreover it works great on both *nix and Windows systems - it can generate VS Projects, if you need (but I recommend Ninja still - it's so much faster), and you can use not the full Visual Studio installation, but just a Visual C++ Build Tools, with compilers only.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoThanks! I'll have to look into those. I'm just using GNU make at the moment.