Monthly Archives: March 2008

Boost 1.35 released

Posted on 30.3.2008 by Anteru

Boost 1.35 has been finally released. Highlights include: Rewritten Boost.Thread to closely match the C++0x Thread library, and with native_handle () support. Works great, I already ported a project to it, so far no problems. Includes also synchronisation primitives like … Continue reading →

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Building OpenEXR 1.4.0a on Vista/VS2008

Posted on 29.3.2008 by Anteru

Some notes for building OpenEXR 1.4.0a on Vista with VS2008: createDLL won’t work as it tries to create files in C:\. You can easily work around this by replacing C:\\ with a path where you have write rights. FLTK include … Continue reading →

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CMake 2.6 reaches beta

Posted on 27.3.2008 by Anteru

CMake 2.6 has reached the beta status (mailing list post). CMake is a very nice cross-platform makefile generator — it does not build the software itself but rather relies on a platform specific tool for this. However, this is actually … Continue reading →

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C++, <windows.h>, precompiled headers and pimpl

Posted on 26.3.2008 by Anteru

Today we take a look at how to make best use of precompiled headers, how to avoid the <windows.h>-is-messing-up-my-symbols-syndrome and how to properly use pimpl to reduce our compile times.

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