Archive for the 'Programming' Category

The Cheesecake Service

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Part of MichaÅ‚ Kwiatkowski’s Summer of Code project was the to create the Cheesecake service. Micheal explains how it all works in his announcement of the cheesecake service.
There was a lot of complaint about the concept of Cheesecake when it first appeared on the scene, but I think the concept is really valuable. […]

HOWTO Cross Compile Python 2.5

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Recently I needed to compile Python for an embedded target. I used version 2.5 though it looks like that choice may have made it harder for me. I used 2.5 because I didn’t want to have to figure out how to cross compile the cElementTree extension. Unfortunately I still ended up having […]

Making Windows Usable

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I previously talked about build environments in Windows and promised to do some more testing of the reliability of certain tools. I turns out that the only set of tools which actually works as expected are the ones provided by Cygwin. I could not get the AT&T UWIN tools to install and they […]

GNU Make, win32 and sed

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Recently I have been playing a bit with makefiles on win32 and Unix. I want to be able to accommodate a couple of build environments without using automake, configure and friends. I am also following Peter Miller’s suggestions from Recursive Make Considered Harmful.
The first step to doing this is removing reliance on external […]