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Instant MSVC Command Prompt Sessions

If you do C programming on Windows you need cl.exe in your PATH.

Unfortunately, running the batch file to locate the cl.exe compiler (vcvarsall.bat) takes about ~5 seconds!

That's only a problem on new Command Prompt sessions, but if you use a program that kicks off a build step it's really annoying to have to run this before any of your build commands. But, thankfully, there's a way around this. We can create a script to inflate the same environment variables that vcvarsall.bat ultimately sets up.

As a side-effect, this is also how to have a single file to manage all of your Command Prompt environment variables in Windows.

Win32 Colored Emoji Rendering

Uses DirectWrite and D2D to render Segoe UI Emojis

	//
	// Build with:
	// > clang -fobjc-arc triangle.m -o triangle -framework Metal -framework AppKit -framework QuartzCore
	//
	#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
	#import <Metal/Metal.h>
	#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

	typedef struct {
	float position[2];

	//
	// Build with:
	// > clang coreaudio_backend.m -o main -framework AudioUnit
	//

	//
	// Base Types
	//

	#include <stdint.h>

	//
	// Compile with:
	// > cl /I . /D"BUILD_DEBUG=1" /D"BUILD_ARCH64=1" /D"BUILD_WIN=1" /Z7 /W4 /sdl /MT /GR- /EHa /WX /nologo /Oi /Gm- /MP d3d12_textured_quad.c /link /opt:ref /DEBUG "kernel32.lib" "user32.lib" "gdi32.lib" "d3d12.lib" "dxguid.lib" "dxgi.lib" "d3dcompiler.lib" /OUT:d3d12_textured_quad.exe
	//

	#pragma warning(disable:4221)
	#pragma warning(disable:4204)
	#pragma warning(disable:4201)

	#define NOMINMAX

	//
	// Converts Google Keep exported JSON notes to Obsidian markdown files
	// Usage: node keep2obsidian.js
	// Place files in a sibling directory called: `notes`
	//

	const fs = require('fs');
	const path = require('path');

	const readJSON = (filePath) => {

	//
	// NOTE(nick): modified version of spall.h to make it a single-file header library
	//
	// Usage:
	#if 0
	// 1) Include this in your C source:
	#include "spall.h"

	// 2) Call the setup functions:
	int main() {

	//
	// NOTE(nick):
	//
	// 1. Get Dawn:
	//
	// on Windows get a prebuilt copy of dawn from: https://github.com/mmozeiko/build-dawn
	//
	// on MacOS build from source with:
	// git clone https://github.com/google/dawn
	// cd dawn

	/*
	* MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNED DISTANCE FIELD GENERATOR
	* ---------------------------------------------
	* A utility by Viktor Chlumsky, (c) 2014 - 2023
	*
	* The technique used to generate multi-channel distance fields in this code
	* has been developed by Viktor Chlumsky in 2014 for his master's thesis,
	* "Shape Decomposition for Multi-Channel Distance Fields". It provides improved
	* quality of sharp corners in glyphs and other 2D shapes compared to monochrome
	* distance fields. To reconstruct an image of the shape, apply the median of three

	// Types
	#define NULL 0
	typedef unsigned char u8;
	typedef unsigned int u32;
	typedef signed int i32;
	typedef signed long long i64;
	typedef double f64;


	// Imports