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I would not really call using Visual Studio a hacky solution. While VSCode has come a long way it nowhere near as well integrated with the compilers as VS.
Yes VS is often seen as bloated but that is because it has do much built in support. With VSCode you need a lot of extensions to do similar things and while that means you can pick and choose it also means there could be things hat just do not work.
That said, there are a lot of entitlement among SO and I have also had similar experiences so I know the feeling.
Did they add any reason for closing, I assume you had not accepted any answer so there should be an explanation for the closing. -
@Voxera compilation shouldn't depend on the editor/IDE. Especially C, which is meant to be portable and system-agnostic, shouldn't depend on the editor. Ideally you would want a build script which works correctly as long as the dependencies are fulfilled on any system.
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@Voxera what if you don't want to or cannot use VS, for whatever reason?
The reason shouldn't matter to you. That's a thing i found increasing on SO. Asker wants to have a problem solved, not guilt tripped into using a different approach. -
@TheGame12 probably your compilation went wrong so no a.exe
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@TheGame12 "a.exe cannot be found" is not an error of the C runtime. Looks more like an IDE error message.
Normally, you would go into the IDE console window part to see the exact compiler call and potential error messages from compiler or linker, and then go ahead from there. -
@ess3sq yes compliation should not depend on the editor BUT if the editor helps controlling the compiler its can have an effect.
If you build your own makefiles sure then its should be completely editor agnostic, its not as vi or windows notepad will mess with compilation :P -
@Nanos People who don't know how to use a search engine have no place on a Q&A site. They need to learn how to google. SO is not meant as personal helpdesk, and neither as personal introduction to basic skills such as googling.
Kicking such morons out is the best way because being kind to them not only wastes time, but also attracts more of them until the site just drowns in their shitty noise.
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Ok, all of us have seen the memes about how nasty Stack Overflow can be, this is why I usually try to find an existing SO post to read instead of making one. This time however, I found an error that I couldn't fix. A nasty C runtime error. I decided to ask a SO question for help, and awaited answers. I came back, and the question had been flagged to require more info, so I added more. I came back later, and someone told me I was doing it the hard way, and I should be using Visual Studio (I'm on Visual Studio Code), which ticks me off, because I don't want to use the hacky way around the problem, then this same person closed the question! They didn't even answer it, they just offered a simple workaround then closed without an answer. Man, SO sucks sometimes.
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