Visual Studio 2019 comes, like its predecessors, with a shortcut for In the wise words of a popular TV show couple, 'this way we have it'. Two copies of the build tools and then node-gyp will be confusedĪbout which version it should use and you'll wonder why updating oneĭoesn't do anything and it'll be a whole mess. You will have to install the full thing, and then you'll end up with Which you could probably install in the command line.īut one day you may want to use Visual Studio's profiler, and then You could also install only the build tools. Open-source contributors, and invidiuals. In our case, we'll use Visual Studio 2019 Community, which is free for students, On Windows, building applications (the way Microsoft intended) involves settingĪside multiple gigabytes of free disk space and running a graphical installer. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have the same name on Windows: It listed the dynamic libraries an executable was linkedĪgainst.

The Manjaro system we used to read files came with binutils, which provided Going to have to look at the Windows equivalents. Learned about dynamic libraries (like libc), and the Linux kernel, and how syscallsĪllowed us to ask the Linux kernel to do our bidding. In reading files the hard way - part 2, we The kernel is probably involved at some point. Talking to the outside world via a NIC (network interface controller), So it must be calling some sort of library. Ping.exe itself implements all the protocols involved in sending a ping.

So, how does ping.exe actually send a ping? It seems unrealistic that

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