Advogato blog for ztf
Advogato blog for ztf

• 25 Nov 2003
  Blog

  25 Jun 2003
  Life:

  A year and a half with no 25 Jan 2002
  

  Hacking:

  It figures. I'm starting to grow my hair pointy enough at work that I don't get to do much code anymore. But hey, there's always free software, right?

  So I (foolishly) let 3 Jan 2002
  

  Life:

  It continues. It's busy. :)

  Hacking:

  It begins again. :) I have gotten the Linux box running again, so there's some hope. OpenCASCADE 4.0 is out, and I finally bought a book on OpenGL and tried my first demos. Wahoo!

  Not that 24 Aug 2001
  

  Hacking:

  Reducing my Win32 GTK+ work to the status of "useless, redundant, and irrellevant," someone has created a whiz-bang, no-brainer compile script whilst I was banging my head against a wall trying to figure out the steps. Some days, it just doesn't pay. At least I got the learning experience out of it (and a working MinGW).

  Life:

  School must start, soon! :)

• 17 Aug 2001
  

  More Hacking:

  Wahoo! I figured that as soon as I wrote my gripes about GTK+ Win32 compilation down, I'd get it solved.

  Here's what worked:

  • Install Mingw.
  • Install Cygwin (REQUIRED, even though we'll be using the Mingw compiler). There is a bash script that is required to create the .DLL.
  • Make sure that Cygwin is after Mingw in PATH.
  • Make sure the current build directory is in PATH (required so that the generated glib-1.3.dll can be found for later build steps).
  • make -f makefile.mingw
  • Copy the results to a more useful place when done.

  Now, hopefully I can repeat these steps ...

• 17 Aug 2001
  

  Hacking:

  Sheesh. I thought that compiling the latest and greatest README's I can find.

  So here's what I've got so far:

  • Compiling glib-1.3.6 with MinGW didn't work.
  • Cross-compiling glib-1.3.6 under Cygwin didn't work.
  • Compiling glib-1.3.6 as a native Cygwin module didn't work
  • Getting latest from CVS and trying to build under Cygwin doesn't work, because autogen.sh wants a newer automake and because Cygwin doesn't ship with libtool.
  • At least the latest automake build cleanly for Cygwin.
  • However, libtool-1.4 fails all build checks, and some searching on the Cygwin lists yields the observation that libtool is Just Broken(tm) right now on Windows. But maybe in a couple of months it will be OK. :(
  • Some days, it just doesn't pay to not go to bed. :)

  Oh well. Time to go back to the plain MinGW compile and try again ...

  Life:

  My 31 Jul 2001
  

  Keeping And Arming Bears

  bcully, I think the argument for The Right To Keep and Bear Arms(TRTKBA) is a bit more subtle than "we might need to overthrow the government again" (not that the founders shied away from that, having been successful revolutionaries themselves).

  As I understand it, the reason that TRTKBA is enshrined in the Constitution is tha