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Re:Crystal Programming Language by EpicBlackCrayon on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:54PM (#32696641)
This specifically installs the Visual C++ Compiler and the Windows headers so that you can get a command prompt with all that in your PATH. It is not a full-fat VS install. The difference is something like 20-30GBs for the full VS install vs 1-2GB for these specific components.
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Re:Crystal Programming Language by svnpenn on Friday September 02, 2022 @07:07PM (#32696749)
Meanwhile, LLVM-MinGW is 108 MB:

https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases

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Re:Crystal Programming Language by npn on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:34AM (#32698757)
now you are just arguing for the sake of argument. unzip the file and it will expand to a 400MB folder.
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Re:Crystal Programming Language by svnpenn on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:33AM (#32701757)
Have you ever installed Visual Studio? I have. Even just the build tools DOWNLOADS 1-2 GB, as other user mentioned, which is still 10 times what you get with other options.
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