I haven’t written any C++ since 2009, or cross-platform C++ since the 90s. Working with the language in 2020 continues to require a lot of paper and glue (a.k.a. autoconf and make). The scissors, however, have become dramatically sharper as the community seems to have adopted CMake. And so, having found a spare half hour, I decided to build a “hello world” C++ sample for AWS Data Exchange. It took … 3 days. Building the AWS SDK for C++ I began with Getting Started Using the AWS SDK for C++ which...