Category Archives: Software Development

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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first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

Posted on May 29, 2007 by andy dingfelder

After my first full week of using Eclipse (having moved away from JBuilder) I thought I would list some of my thoughts: The visual editor sucks. Jbuilder 2005/6 and Netbeans have eclipse beat here. I hope this area improves soon. … Continue reading →

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ProjectAssist Installation Errors (part 2)

Posted on March 16, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Having determined the cause of the maven issues, I moved on and cleaned up my system and restarted the install. I then got perl errors, which the log listed as: (13:22:49:671) Installing C:borlandprojectassistPerlsitelibNetLDAPExtensionWhoAmI.pm (13:22:49:671) Perl install: processing INSTALL component AppConfig… … Continue reading →

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C Programming in Eclipse

Posted on March 13, 2007 by andy dingfelder

In my day to day job, I mainly use java, primarily for the development of graphical interfaces to communicate with custom built hardware running embedded microprocessors (written in assembly and c). In addition though, I also write c and c++ … Continue reading →

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Continuing Saga of Registration Issues…

Posted on February 24, 2007 by andy dingfelder

I spoke with a Borland support engineer (in their free “registration issues” support department) for about an hour on Friday, trying to resolve my registration issues.

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Eclipse Multiple Monitor Bug

Posted on February 23, 2007 by andy dingfelder

While Eclipse does work across multiple monitors, I know of one bug that I find quite annoying. I use 3 monitors, with the main source view occupying my center screen, and the output console occuping the left screen, and all … Continue reading →

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JBuilder Registration Woes…

Posted on February 23, 2007 by andy dingfelder

Because of continuing registration issues, I thought it would be interesting to post my thoughts… The place I work has a poor internet connection (hundreds of employees share a limited isp connection so download bandwidth is limited and large downloads … Continue reading →

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Rambling thoughts about JBuilder 2007…

Posted on February 19, 2007 by andy dingfelder

I recently made the jump to JBuilder 2007. As a long time user of JBuilder (I started using JBuilder back with version 3) I have to start off saying that this version is quite a bit different from any other … Continue reading →