Category Archives: linux

Hot New Project

Posted on January 31, 2013 by andy dingfelder

I have started a HOT new project. My house is HOT when the weather heats up. Why? Because house technology is a bit backwards here in New Zealand. Imagine this: The temperature goes up outside. The temperature in the attic … Continue reading →

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compiling windows apps on linux

Posted on July 25, 2007 by andy dingfelder

now that we successfully used cmake to compile a linux app (in the last article), we will now try and compile it for windows. I am doing this on Gentoo linux, so your mileage may vary if you used a … Continue reading →

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Cross platform development with the Eclipse CDT

Posted on July 24, 2007 by andy dingfelder

So, you want to create an application that can un under both Linux and Windows? This is my experiment trying to do just that… Lets see if the Eclipse CDT is robust to do cross platform development! Step 1: Install … Continue reading →

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Installing eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo

Posted on July 14, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Today was the day to get eclipse going on Gentoo. I downloaded the latest version (3.3) and dropped it into /opt/eclipse. I fired it up and got: # ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for eclipse on Gentoo

Posted on July 12, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4. Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ the first thing … Continue reading →

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moving to linux

Posted on July 9, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Well, I finally made the decision to move to Linux from Windows XP. I have decided upon using Gentoo as my platform of choice. Gentoo seems to be the most cutting edge, as it supports installations via compiling everything from … Continue reading →

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