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> Even Microsoft doesn't try to build on NTFS. Citation needed. I haven't worked at Microsoft for a while but when I did we built on Windows using NTFS. When I
by brucedawson 7y ago
> Even Microsoft doesn't try to build on NTFS.
Citation needed. I haven't worked at Microsoft for a while but when I did we built on Windows using NTFS. When I found a correctness bug in NTFS last year I was told that it had been affecting Windows builds, which means they were using NTFS as recently as February 2018.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/compiler-bug-linker-bug-windows-kernel-bug/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/compiler-bug-li...
The biggest problem I usually encounter with building on Windows is slow process creation.