07.03.2024 
If you work on C++ projects on Windows that need to be built with multiple Visual Studio C++ compiler versions, you need some way to manage the installations of all these build environments. Either you have multiple IDEs installed, or you know about build tools (https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe) and maybe keep only the latest full VS IDE […]
Author Archives: Miłosz Kosobucki
GitHub Actions for C++ and Qt How to use GitHub Actions for C++ and Qt projects
You may already be hosting your code on GitHub, but do you know that GitHub provides a built-in Continuous Integration solution called GitHub Actions that is very easy to set up and free for public repositories? In this article I’m providing a crash course on what GitHub Actions are and how to use it for […]
Improving C++ Development in Visual Studio Code with compile_commands.json and Bear
As described in our previous blog posts, you can use Visual Studio Code as an IDE for C++ projects. It works particularly well with CMake-based projects. Unfortunately, with build systems not supported natively by VS Code, you need to manually configure include paths and compilation definitions, for the code model to work properly. Since the […]
State of Native Big File Handling in Git
Milosz Kosobucki shares the current status of the partial clone functionality in git, providing some details of the problems.
Fixing a common antipattern when loading translations in Qt
TL;DR: If you choose a default translation in your Qt application based on a locale name like this: then please change it to: Some of your users (me!) will be thankful that your application appears in the same language as the rest of their system. Background I’m a Polish guy working with computers, mostly on […]