Malcolm McLean
2024-03-17 08:02:40 UTC
Life goes on it's merry way independedent of Usenet and programming, and
I can now sleep at my own house once more, and I dusted off a Windows
machine which had been laid up for four years. And of course I wanted to
simply compile the flood fill code and run some quick tests.
And what a nightmare. The whole evening getting the machine back in the
land of the living. What should be routine - compile an ANSI C program
which calls the standard library, is just not made routine. 3GB of
components had to be downloaded, and a runtime library obtained and
downloaded specially. Then the project setting need fiddling with in
unexpected and not very obvious ways.
Utter, utter unacceptable chaos and difficulty and hurdles. Considering
that 4 years ago it was set up to compile a C program.
I can now sleep at my own house once more, and I dusted off a Windows
machine which had been laid up for four years. And of course I wanted to
simply compile the flood fill code and run some quick tests.
And what a nightmare. The whole evening getting the machine back in the
land of the living. What should be routine - compile an ANSI C program
which calls the standard library, is just not made routine. 3GB of
components had to be downloaded, and a runtime library obtained and
downloaded specially. Then the project setting need fiddling with in
unexpected and not very obvious ways.
Utter, utter unacceptable chaos and difficulty and hurdles. Considering
that 4 years ago it was set up to compile a C program.