alt Hacker NewsThis is harder than what I do. Just install LTSC Visual Studio build tools from [1], then chuck this in a cmd file:
cl yourprogram.c /link user32.lib advapi32.lib ... etc etc ...
The Visual Studio toolchain does have LTSC and stable releases - no one seems to know about them though. see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/visualstudio/releases/2022... - you should use these if you are not a single developer and have to collaborate with people. Back like in the old days when we had pinned versions of the toolchain across whole company.
[1] https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/5d23...
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mycall • today at 7:37 PM
I noticed Visual Studio 2026 doesn't have an LTSC release yet. Any idea when that will come out?
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> The Visual Studio toolchain does have LTSC and stable releases - no one seems to know about them though.
You only get access to the LTSC channel if you have a license for at least Visual Studio Professional (Community won't do it); so a lot of hobbyist programmers and students are not aware of it.
On the other hand, its existence is in my experience very well-known among people who use Visual Studio for work at some company.