I'm an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works.
Now every time I try to learn something new... there's always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn't get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break.
Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like?
Alternatively, any good resources for the above?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154
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Now every time I try to learn something new... there's always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn't get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break.
Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like?
Alternatively, any good resources for the above?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154
Points: 6
# Comments: 4
Continue reading...