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About the humungous Visual Studio download - that's annoyed me as well. I recently asked: "How do I obtain Microsoft's C++ compiler and standard library (and j
by einpoklum 5y ago
About the humungous Visual Studio download - that's annoyed me as well. I recently asked:
"How do I obtain Microsoft's C++ compiler and standard library (and just that)?"
https://stackoverflow.com/q/69274364/1593077 https://stackoverflow.com/q/69274364/1593077
and the answer was either "You can't" or "It's complicated". I gave up and used the MSVS installer. And you _still_ need to invoke a complex script to get your environment in order.
- e12e 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean with "just that", but eg the scoop package manager has visualc package: scoop bucket add extras scoop info visualc > (...) > The command-line compiler > functions of VS 2010 C++ scoop install visualc https://scoop.sh https://scoop.sh https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/visualc.json https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/blob/master/bucket/... Might be something via chocolaty/winget too?
- einpoklum 5y agoI had not found a simple chocolatey-based option. But - can you explain whether scoop is a chocolatey alternative or something else?
- e12e 5y agoScoop is a bit like a user focused apt/homebrew. It's mostly for installing programs, not development dependencies. https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Comparison https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Comp...