On Jan 15, 2022, at 3:09 AM, Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anders Broman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Yes sounds like a good idea. Have been contemplating testing it too.
>
> I just installed the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022"
> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2022
"These Build Tools allow you to build Visual Studio projects from a command-line interface."
Does that mean
this is Visual Studio without the "Visual", i.e. it's all the command-line tools, but without the IDE
or
if you just install Visual Studio, you don't get the command-line tools - you also have to install this?
The former sounds like "Command Line Tools for Xcode {version}" on macOS or "don't install any IDE" on the free-software UN*Xes (I don't know whether Oracle Studio offers that).
The latter seems less likely, as I think most IDEs either run the compiler/linker/other tools directly or run some builder program (make, msbuild, etc.) that runs the compiler/linker/other tools, but I guess if the core of the compiler/linker are in libraries that the command-line tools link with and that an IDE program could link with as well (say hello, LLVM), it would be possible.