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Ofek's Visual C++ stuff
Personal blog · ofekshilon.comprogrammingsystems
Ofek's Visual C++ stuff is a personal blog at ofekshilon.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “CMake Rants”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ofek's Visual C++ blog as a source on build systems, mainly its 2016 CMake rants post, which commenters cite to support claims about CMake and relative paths.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Whatever deserves more web presence
Most-linked posts?
- CMake Rants2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-31
What Hacker News says?
[A] >>>>>> I just wish it would work with relative paths. It shouldn't break your build to move a folder around. [B] >>>>> AFAIK cmake works perfectly fine with relative paths; what breaks? [A] >>>> I don't think it works: https://ofekshilon.com/2016/08/30/cmake-rants/ [C] >>> it makes no more sense to distribute the project files [A] >> Nobody was talking about redistributing anything. I just said I should be able…
Comment linking /2016/08/30/cmake-rants/
on “A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles”Submitted On API-MS-WIN-XXXXX.DLL, and Other Dependency Walker Glitches as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't think it works: https://ofekshilon.com/2016/08/30/cmake-rants/
Comment linking /2016/08/30/cmake-rants/
on “A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles”Submitted CMake Rants as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree. Disclaimer: author of a soon-to-be released Meson competitor. But one obscure, little gem of a rant that taught me what you just said is [1]. tl;dr: Build systems should run the commands you tell them to run, period. Because sometimes, the programmer actually does know what he's doing. I am ashamed to admit that before I read that comment, I was thinking about making my build system magical. But after readi…
Comment linking /2016/08/30/cmake-rants/
on “Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle”Submitted Accelerating Debug Runs, Part 1: _NO_DEBUG_HEAP as a story · 1 points
HN discussion