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Building Qt from source with Visual Studio

In case you do UI development, Qt 4.5 and later is now a very interesting alternative since it is licensed under the LGPL. However, if you use Visual Studio, you’ll find that there are no precompiled binaries, so you have … Continue reading

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Building OpenEXR 1.4.0a on Vista/VS2008

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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Building Boost from SVN trunk with Visual Studio 2008 (x86 & x64)

Welcome to the bleeding edge. Just switched to Visual Studio 2008, and you need Boost for your project? Then read on to see how you can build Boost from trunk with VC9 (actually, this also applies to VC8, and possibly … Continue reading

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