Lightning Talk: (Fine) Wine and MSVC: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Yannic Staudt - CppCon 2023

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Lightning Talk: (Fine) Wine and MSVC: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Yannic Staudt - CppCon 2023
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A short story about wine, command line arguments, paths and what it takes to cross compile binaries for Windows targets on a Linux host using MSVC and why you might consider doing the same!
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Yannic Staudt
Yannic is one of the co-founders of tipi.build, a hacker at heart and has written software for anything from 4 bit micros to distributed data processing systems.
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[@guiorgy]

Is this a cursed blessing, or a blessed curse 🤔? Either way, amazing job!

[@petermuller608]

I would really love to have msvc on my CI to get access to additional analysis
This scared me xD

[@Debrugger]

Amazing. Horrible. Glad there's still people working on stuff that actually matters!

[@jopa19991]

Wonderful. Now pray they don't break it with one of the next VS updates 😉

[@PaulMetalhero]

Why install that virus on Linux?

[@johanngerell]

When did you last use it? Why do you say it's a virus? Or is it "haha c'mon, it was just a joke"?

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

Because plenty of large companies rely on it.

[@blenderpanzi]

Because I need to compile a DLL and static lib for Windows app devs and I didn't want to install (and pay for) Windows. Last time I checked the msvc toolchain was free (not open source), just Visual Studio (and Windows isn't). Found a project that used a combination of bash and Python scripts to download and extract it all so I could just run nmake under Linux and be done with it.
Why not mingw? Because a static lib has to be built with the same compiler. Simply for binaries mingw is great. I think VLC for Windows is built using mingw. Too bad that cross compiling to macOS is much more of a hassle. Zig is supposedly enabling that, though. Have to have a look at it.