More out of interest than anything else, but can you compile a DirectX app under linux? Obviously there's no official SDK, but I was thinking it might be possible with wine. Presumably wine has an implementation of the DirectX interface in order to run games? Is it possible to link against that? (edit: This is called winelib) Failing ...
I'm using MinGW with GCC 3.4.5 (mingw-special vista r3). My C application uses a lot of stack so I was wondering is there any way I can tell programatically how much stack is remaining so I can cleanly handle the situation if I find that I'm about to run out. If not what other ways would you work around the problem of potentially runni...
I'm regularly running into similar situations : I have a bunch of COM .DLLs (no IDL files) which I need to use and invoke to be able to access some foreign (non-open, non-documented) data format. Microsoft's Visual Studio platform has very nice capabilities to import such COM DLLs and use them in my project (Visual C++'s #import directi...
I've gone to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435, downloaded the Automated MinGW Installer for MinGW 5.1.4 and at the same time the GNU Source-Level Debugger Release Candidate: GDB 6.8-3. I've then installed MinGW base tools into C:\MinGW. No problem so far. However when I come to install the gdb debugger it has a...
I used the MinGW .a to Windows .lib transformation process as detailed in a thread on the gmp-discuss list, as below (acting against a library created with --disable-shared --enable-static.) cp libgmp.a gmp.a ranlib gmp.a mv gmp.a gmp.lib I now have a .lib file against which VC++6 seems to have no difficulty linking. What concerns me...
I have a stub Qt application and I keep getting compiler errors #include <QApplication> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; } I used qmake -project and qmake commands and as far as I can tell they did their job correctly. When I subsequently call make at the command line I get the following error: g++ -c -O2 -frtti ...
I'm trying to link a Qt application with its libraries and the linker (MinGW) spews hundreds of lines like the following, and I am unsure how to proceed. cpp: undefined reference to `_Unwind_SjLj_Register' c:/qt/lib/libQtCore.a(qcoreapplication_win.o)(.text+0x29d):qcoreapplication_win. cpp: undefined reference to `_Unwind_SjLj_Unreg...
I am trying to use native windows API with Qt using mingw toolset. There are link problems with some functions. What happens? Is this a bug with mingw name mangling? #ifdef Q_WS_WIN HWND hwnd = QWidget::winId(); HDC hdcEMF = CreateEnhMetaFile(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL ) ; Rectangle(hdcEMF,100,100,200,200); HENHMETAFILE hem...
How can I debug a MinGW EXE with the Microsoft Visual C++ debugger? ...
I was unable to install cython due to strict version numbering class of Distutils. For example binutils-2.18.50-20080109-2.tar.gz cannot be used along with MinGW for installing cython. The source code documentation says that "The rationale for this version numbering system will be explained in the distutils documentation." I am unable to...
GCC supports Setjump-longjump (sjlj) and Dwarf2 table-based unwinding (dw2) exception handling models. What is the difference between the two models and how to choose the appropriate model? Why is Dwarf2 table-based unwinding (dw2) the more efficient model? I understand that the two models cannot be mixed. Reference: Technology Preview:...
The build instructions of V8 JavaScript Engine mention only Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Has anybody been successful with MinGW on Windows XP/Vista? ...
Hi! Just wondering if there is any way (in C) to get the contents of the console buffer, preferably as some kind of char array. It is going to be written to a file, so if I am missing out on something stupid that will do exactly that, then point it out. It can be Windows-specific. I am using MinGW (gcc 3.4.5). Thanks in advance. ...
I'm building a MySQL plugin for Qt 4.4.3 Open Source Edition (Qt documentation), and using command: cd %QTDIR%\src\plugins\sqldrivers\mysql qmake "INCLUDEPATH+=C:\MySQL\include" "LIBS+=C:\MYSQL\MySQL Server <version>\lib\opt\libmysql.lib" mysql.pro make I manage to build it to my 64-bit Qt just fine using 64-bit MySQL dev files (using...
How can you get a recent release, i.e. 4.2+, of g++/gcc for windows? Mingw's standard g++ is 3.4.5 which is 3 years old, released Nov 2005. Mingw have a 4.2 version but this is only in the Alpha stage. I cannot find a stable recent release of g++ for windows, surely I must be missing something. ...
Greetings. I was give an assignment to basically explain thi. I have taken a quick look at the compiler documentation, and it seems to be a good place to start although it is quite extensive and I don't have much time. I'd like to know if I'd need to understand the C99 standards beforehand, or if there's another good source I can check....
I am looking at embedding perl 5.10 in a large C++ application compiled with VC++ 6.0. This leads to two questions. 1) Is it a bad idea to simply use Strawberry Perl as a dependency rather than compile my own perl with VC++ 6.0? Would Strawberry even work given the compiler mismatch? I presume Strawberry is compiled with mingw. I wo...
I've been exploring use of MSys lately as an alternative, 'nix-like shell for my windows development. However, the default colors and size are driving me crazy. Anyone have any idea as to how I can change the default size, color, and / or font? Honestly, I'd be happy if I could make the default character width/height of the shell larg...
We recently had a new requirement to use the phonon component of Qt, which on windows requires Visual Studio. I installed VS2008 and ran a compile. There are a stack of problems due to make not working anything like nmake. Since I need to maintain cross-platform I want to test which compiler is being used so that I can make changes as...
Hey! I'm getting the folling linker errors when compiling with gcc: undefined reference to `SetStretchBltMode@8' undefined reference to `StretchDIBits@52' undefined reference to `SetDIBitsToDevi Are these functions defined in the windows libs? If so do they come installed with Vista, or do I need to install them, and if so where c...