Today I was locked in bloody struggle with CMake + Visual Studio, trying to get a small-ish open source project to compile. After 3 hours of non-stop effort, I can say that I have been defeated for now but am not giving up hope. I got past all the stupid cmake errors and the stupid dependency errors but am stuck on a stupid linking error (seriously? Why is it trying to link to a binary that I never told it to? and whose name is only slightly different from the one it should link to?)

It could be worse. At least this software was meant to be built on Windows with MSVC. And has a binary release in case I give up. But I won’t. Probably.