It’s one of those issues, that when you run into it, you ask yourself, how this is still a thing in insert current year? How can Windows in 2024 still have problems dealing with file paths longer than 260 characters? …well actually 256 where three characters are taken up by the driver letter (e.g. C:\) […]
Tag: Windows
PATH Handling in GitHub Actions
While playing around with getting a specific version of MinGW to run within a GitHub Actions, I had to add the MinGW’s bin/ directory to the PATH environment variable. This isn’t as straight forward as it would be in a batch or PowerShell script, because each GitHub Actions step is executed in an isolated fashion, […]
Using OpenSSH Server on Windows
In the past whenever I had to manage a Windows Server, I used RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to connect to the server and manually click around to change the necessary settings. While working with Ansible to setup a Windows build agent, I realized that starting with Windows 10, Windows does ship with support for OpenSSH […]
Follow Symbolic Links to a New Windows Install
The other week I got a new hard disk of the spinning kind, to sort through some of my accumulated backups, VSTs, game files, videos, recordings, etc. etc. – no, I’m totally not a data hoarder. To move some old system backup from one disk to an other, I used robocopy, as the file paths […]
TIL: Ninja & MSYS2 Clang
Ninja Continuing my quest of compiling SFML with all the flavors of Clang on Windows, I tried out the build system Ninja for the first time. It’s well-known, has its own CMake generator for a very long time and compared to a normal Visual Studio build it’s quite fast. There honestly isn’t too much to […]