Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you A recent trend in multiplatform GUI applications is to create the core business logic of the application in something like C++, have it (optionally) expose a plain C interface and then create a gui… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you Slow compilation times are a perennial problem. There have been many attempts at caching and distributing the problem such as distcc and Icecream. The main bottleneck on both of these is that some work… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you A common problem in linking problems has to do with circular dependencies. Suppose you have a program that looks like this: Here program calls into function one, which is in library A. That calls… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you Since times immemorial, compilers have been run as standalone batch processes. If you have 50 files to compile, then you invoke the compiler 50 times, once on each file. Since each compilation is independent… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you A few weeks ago I was at CppCon. One of the presentations was about new stuff in the Visual Studio compiler. The presentation had this slide fairly early on. If that is truly their… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you At FOSDEM, quite literally only a few moments ago, we published the new Meson logo. The design process was fairly long and somewhat arduous. This blog post aims to provide the rationale for all… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you My previous blog post on the future of Meson was a smashing hit (with up to five(!) replies on Twitter), so I figured I’d write a bit more in depth article about the issue.… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you Most FOSS projects have a bug tracker, code repository and an IRC channel. Many even have a developer meeting, conference or awards given out to most prolific contributors. But do you know what no… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you In interesting intellectual design challenge is to take a working thing (library, architecture, etc) and then see what would happen if you would reimplement it with the exact opposite way. Not because you’d use… Read More »
Mangihin.com is a website that provides useful information, please share if there is interesting information that can help you. Thank you The Meson Build system has existed for over six years. Even though we have a fairly good set of documentation, there has not been a standalone user’s manual for it. Until now. A crowdfunding… Read More »