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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by NullPrefix on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:31PM (#28282243)
>Install Clang/LLVM. It's like 300MB

Isn't this like a first computer world problem? How many gigabytes does current Visual Studio take? Not talking about VS Code, because it's only an IDE, which still requires the actual Visual Studio C++ as the compiler.

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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by Tijdreiziger on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:14PM (#28283256)
If anything, it seems like a non-first world problem. I assume they have older, less powerful hardware in developing countries.
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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by AndriyKunitsyn on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:06PM (#28283189)
It is possible to have “headless” MS compiler & build tools in Windows, by installing Windows SDK. It may be used with VSCode.

The full Visual Studio is not required.

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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by NullPrefix on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:03PM (#28284009)
How much space does it take?
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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by ptx on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:02PM (#28291675)
A surprisingly large amount. Many gigs. I'm not on my Windows machine right now, so I can't give you any figures, but it's enormous.
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