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Deleting partitions with diskpart on Windows

Posted by | Windows |

PowerShell as Administrator:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-0DRJUG2

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          476 GB   476 GB        *
  Disk 1    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 2    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 3    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 4    Online           14 GB      0 B
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03
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Building QT 6.6.2 for Windows and Android

Posted by | Android, QT, Windows |

I installed MS Visual Studio, Android Studio and the following tools:

cmake-3.24.2-windows-x86_64
nasm-2.15.05
ninja-win
Python35
Strawberry
VulkanSDK
x86_64-12.2.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v10-rev0

and built QT for Windows with the following commands:

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08
03
24
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Configuring RAID on Auros Z390 mainboard

Posted by | Motherboards, Windows |

I installed Intel RST driver:

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07
23
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App execution aliases on Windows

Posted by | Windows |

Turn them off to make Python work:

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20
04
23
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Running GUI apps on WSL

Posted by | Windows | Tagged |

Updating existing WSL installation

I updated WSL according to this MS guide:

wsl --update
wsl --shutdown
wsl --version

WSL version: 1.2.0.0
Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
WSLg version: 1.0.51
MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.2604
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03
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Building QT6.4 for Windows with Vulkan support

Posted by | QT, Vulkan, Windows |

Installed Vulkan SDK and built QT6.4.2 for windows with the following script:

set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64

set MY_DRIVE=D:

%MY_DRIVE%
mkdir \dev\build\qt
cd \dev\build\qt
       
set "CMAKE_ROOT=%MY_DRIVE%\dev\tools\cmake-3.24.2-windows-x86_64\bin"
set "NINJA_ROOT=%MY_DRIVE%\dev\tools\ninja-win"
set "PERL_ROOT=%MY_DRIVE%\dev\tools\Strawberry\perl\bin"
set "PYTHON_ROOT=%MY_DRIVE%\dev\tools\Python35"
set VULKAN_SDK=%MY_DRIVE%/dev/tools/VulkanSDK/1.3.239.0
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02
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How to get a history of running processes

Posted by | Windows |

Follow the steps from superuser.com:

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22
01
23
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Building a C++ project with MinGW using Visual Studio Code

Posted by | Development environments, Windows |

In CMake Tools extension settings I specified my CMake path:

and built my project with MSVC 2022 first and then switched to MinGW.

Building a project with MSVC 2022

On my machine with installed MSVC 2022 it automatically generated configuration file %LocalAppData%/CMakeTools/cmake-tools-kits.json:

[
  {
    "name": "Visual Studio Professional 2022 Release - amd64",
    "visualStudio": "04bbaecf",
    "visualStudioArchitecture": "x64",
    "preferredGenerator": {
      "name": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
      "platform": "x64",
      "toolset": "host=x64"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Visual Studio Professional 2022 Release - amd64_x86",
    "visualStudio": "04bbaecf",
    "visualStudioArchitecture": "x64",
    "preferredGenerator": {
      "name": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
      "platform": "win32",
      "toolset": "host=x64"
    }
  },
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01
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Compiling a C++ source file in Visual Studio Code with MinGW

Posted by | Development environments, Windows |

I followed this instruction and configured C/C++ extension as follows:

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Win32",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**"
            ],
            "defines": [
                "_DEBUG",
                "UNICODE",
                "_UNICODE"
            ],
            "windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.19041.0",
            "compilerPath": "D:\\dev\\tools\\x86_64-12.2.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v10-rev0\\mingw64\\bin\\g++.exe",
            "cStandard": "c17",
            "cppStandard": "c++17",
            "intelliSenseMode": "windows-gcc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}
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Creating Windows Application Icon on Ubuntu 22.04

Posted by | Ubuntu, Windows |

Install magick tool:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install imagemagick

Copy *.png files to a folder, for example:

win16x16.png
win32x32.png
win48x48.png
win64x64.png

and run the following command:

convert *.png winapp.ico
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