YIKES!
Today I have a day off! And although there are hundreds of things to be done in and around the house, I decided to tackle some issues from my ever growing audiokaa project backlog. So I went straight to my gitlab and checked out my options.
An easy issue for starters was quickly found and solved in about ten minutes. Well, almost. The compiler of my freshly setup Visual Studio complained that min is not in the std namespace. That bit in itself was not the problem, but the f!@*!ing compiler complained in GERMAN! Crap! I had installed the Studio thing forgetting to set English as default language. My German is decent, as you probably can imagine, but once you have to search for error messages or directions on how to click through settings in your GUI, you learn to appreciate English — as most answers on sites like stackoverflow are in that language.
A girl among geeks, Karina Wilk, had the same problem and provided a step-by-step guide on how to change the language of Visual Studio 1019 after installation. Easy enough, I thought. However, at some point I got distracted, so my installer decided to update my Visual Studio . Do not ask about the speed of my internet connection! I just tell you, that it is slow enough to write this blog post during the download … (and have some fights with the annoying wordpress Gutenberg editor)
Then, Windows decided that this one HUGE update could not be postponed any longer. So I went to water some plants, fold some clean laundry and appropriately distribute it to our several wardrobes, and make a cup of tea. When I came back, the update was going strong at 91 % and I decided to just sit it out drinking my tea.
After that, I tackled some problem with Visual Studio complaining about target machines, then Visual Studio did not want to start my target, but an ominous ALL_BUILD thing that did not actually exist … Programming used to be easier back in the old days!
Now, 2 hours later, everything runs just as before. I did my commit and closed the issue (that actuall was about renaming TWO main.cpp files).
