I am currently trying to compile my Gtkmm program for windows using my linux system. This requires that I ship the Gtk binaries (in this case .dll's) with my program, since Gtk does not support static linking.
But I just dont know how to get them - the official Gtk download page ( https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php ) just redirects to the MSYS2 project ( http://www.msys2.org/ ) that offers .EXE files **rage*!
I just dont know where I can download the right dll files that I need to include :/
I would appreciate any help with this.
Regards,
NiAypa
The GTK+ project does not distribute binaries for any platform.
If you are cross-compiling from Linux to Windows, you will need to cross-compile all the dependencies yourself, and distribute them together. Various distributions, like Fedora, ship with cross-compiled dependencies that you can re-use for that purpose.
The MSYS2 project is for building applications and libraries on Windows, using a native toolchain.
I'd like to point out that cross-compiling is great if you want to do CI and testing, but if you want to distribute complex applications for Windows my suggestion would be to actually build them on Windows.
I am trying to do some embedded programming for an online course. The IDE I had to use does not have a Linux version, so I am planning to use the ARM DS-5. It says it can be used with eclipse but I cannot figure out how to get them to work. I have Ubuntu 14.04. I read somewhere that the ARM-DS-5 wouldn't work with anything newer than indigo but that was from 2012 and am not sure how accurate that is now. Any help would be great.
Depending on the use-case, you can pick one the three DS-5 variants.
Community Edition
Free to use.
Allows Linux library/app debug using GNU tools.
Comes in two flavors - Eclipse Plugin and Full Fledged IDE.
Professional Edition
30 days free evaluation.
Allows bare-metal (no OS) and Linux kernel and app debug.
Comes with ARM compiler, debugger along with GNU tools.
Comes with FVP, ARM's virtual hardware, allowing development without real hardware.
Ultimate edition
Everything in the Professional edition plus support for ARMv8, the ARM's architecture with 64-bit support.
You can visit here to see more detailed difference between various editions.
Note there is only one DS-5 IDE installer, which is available for download here. The variant is decided based on type of license chosen. So if you download DS-5 Ultimate for 30-day eval, it can converted to Community edition by changing the license at the end of eval period.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit). After installing leJOS_NXJ_0.9.1beta-3, I was able to flash the NXT device. However, when I tried to upload a program, it showed a message "Found NXT: NXT 0016530CDF15" and then just stuck there.
I also tried Eclipse with leJOS plugin, and got the same problem. It showed
Program has been linked successfully
Uploading ...
Found NXT: NXT 0016530CDF15
and it got stucked there.
Can anybody help me with this issue?
Thanks,
Thuy
This site might be able to help, it provides the information to install and configure correctly all the software necessary for you to develop Java programs for the NXT, maybe by following this site it will hopefully fix the problem.
This tutorial will show you how to install and configure all the software necessary for you to develop Java programs for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. Java is much more powerful and flexible than the original NXT-G software that LEGO provides. We will be using the Eclipse editor to write the actual Java code and to download this into the NXT. This combination enables you to conveniently write software and to quickly test it on the NXT. Of course there are many other Java editors, but we consider this combination to be particularly convenient. This tutorial focuses on the Windows XP platform, A Mac OS X tutorial is also available. We have two additional steps for Windows Vista. You will work through the following five steps - See more at: http://www.bartneck.de/2008/03/04/java-lego-nxt-eclipse-tutorial/#sthash.h1ZOZvlX.dpuf
First of all I love Eclipse but I'm not satisfied with its performance in Linux (Ubuntu) - It is CPU intensive and not responsive enough.
My question is if there is an IDE with most of Eclipse's functions but not built in Java. (More than a Notepad, but not a command line tool like vi or emacs).
Update: I'm looking for an IDE that I could use for Java, PHP, and Python development.
There's KDevelop, a QT4 based IDE that works on all platforms for C++ development. MonoDevelop is a .NET IDE for Linux & other platforms. Komodo, a commercial option, is available for Linux and works well. It's not built with Java, so you will save several MB of RAM allocation. :) It's fast. wxStudio is an interesting option, if you choose to use the wxWindows libraries. There's also Code::Blocks for C++ work. Sun even provides NetBeans, which has plugs-ins like Eclipse for other languages, yet runs a tad faster than Eclipse.
It really depends on the language you're developing in. Honestly, the majority of IDE features you're likely seeking are already natively available in Vim & Emacs... code completion, jumping to definition, breakpoints, etc. are Vim specialties. If you really want a GUI, then the languages you're using are a really important factor.
Does anyone know of a good software development framework or similar that has the following properties?
Cross platform: it should be runnable on XP, Vista, OSX and common versions of Linux (such as Ubuntu and Kubuntu).
No installation: Be able to run the software from a USB stick without having to copy anything to the host machine.
Have good GUI support (this is why this question doesn't give a suitable answer, as far as I can tell).
Permissive licensing such as LGPL or BSD or such.
Among the softer requirements are having a set of abstractions for the most common backend functionality, such as sockets, file IO, and so on (There is usually some platform specific adaptations necessary), and supporting a good language such as Python or C++, though it is usually fun to learn a new one (i.e. not perl).
I think possible candidates are Qt 4.5 or above (but IFAIK Qt software will not run on Vista without any installation(?)), some wxWidgets or maybe wxPython solution, perhaps gtkmm. The examples I have found have failed on one or another of the requirements. This does not mean that no such examples exist, it just means that I have not found any. So I was wondering if anyone out there know of any existing solutions to this?
Some clarifications;
By "framework" I mean something like Qt or gtkmm or python with a widget package.
This is about being able to run the finished product on multiple platforms, from a stick, without installation, it is not about having a portable development environment.
It is not a boot stick.
It is ok to have to build the software specifically for the different targets, if necessary.
The use case I am seeing is that you have some software that you rely on (such as project planning, administration of information, analysis tools or similar) that:
does not rely on having an internet connection being available.
is run on different host machines where it is not really ok to install anything.
is moved by a user via a physical medium (such as a USB stick).
is run on different operating systems, such as Windows, Vista, Ubuntu, OSX.
works on the same data on these different hosts (the data can be stored on the host or on the stick).
is not really restricted in how big the bundled framework is (unless it is several gigabytes, which is not really realistic).
It is also ok to have parallel installations on the stick as long as the software behaves the same and can work on the same data when run on the different targets.
A different view on the use case would be that I have five newly installed machines with Vista, XP, OSX, Ubuntu and Kubuntu respectively in front of me. I would like to, without having to install anything new on the machines, be able to run the same software from a single USB stick (meeting the above GUI requirements and so on) on each of these five machines (though, if necessary from different bundles on the stick).
Is this possible?
Edit:
I have experimented a little with a Qt app that uses some widgets and a sqlite database. It was easy to get it to work on an ubuntu dist and on osx. For windows xp and vista I had to copy QtCored4.dll, QtGuid4.dll, QtSqld4.dll and mingwm10.dll to distribution directory (this was debug code) and I copied the qsqlited4.dll to a folder named "sqldrivers" in the distribution directory.
You mention wxWidgets but dismiss it as failing at least one of the requirements.
I don't know what your requirements are and in what way wxWidgets wouldn't work for you, but IMO it does fulfill them:
Cross platform: it should be runnable on XP, Vista, OSX and common versions of Linux.
It does run on those platforms, but "common versions of Linux" isn't good enough, as you can never be sure that the necessary GUI libraries for wxGTK (which should not be linked to statically) will be installed. This is however a problem for other solutions as well, unless you plan to put everything onto the stick.
No installation: Be able to run the software from a USB stick without having to copy anything to the host machine.
See the previous point, you would need to specify which libraries are needed on Linux. Also you could specify at build time not to use some of the system-provided libraries (for example for graphics, compression, regexes) but to use the wxWidgets-internal libraries instead.
Have good GUI support
Check.
Permissive licensing such as LGPL or BSD or such.
Check. You can statically link wxWidgets into your application too.
supporting a good language such as Python or C++
Supports both, and there are bindings to other languages as well.
having a set of abstractions for the most common backend functionality, such as sockets, file IO, and so on
It does have some abstractions like that, but you can link to other cross-platform libraries as well.
We use wxWidgets for FlameRobin, a graphical administration program for the Firebird SQL server. It has active ports to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and has been compiled for at least some BSD variant and Solaris as well. It definitely runs from a stick on Windows, I haven't tried with Linux or Mac OS X, but I don't see why it shouldn't there too.
Java.
It has GUI support.
It provides your network/file/etc. abstractions.
It is cross-platform. Most platforms you can think of have a JRE available.
No need to install a JRE. Most users probably already have one, and if not, you can run the appropriate JRE right off the stick.
You can provide several startup scripts for various platforms to run the app under the appropriate JRE.
Something else to consider is HTML+Javascript. :D
You can look at Mono it cross platform, has GUI (GTK+, or Winforms 2.0) and I can execute code without installing.
This might not be crossplatform, but is maybe even better, it dont even use the platform : linux on a stick :-)
The subtitle is
Take your Java workspaces wherever you go on a USB key
Here with java and eclipse, but nothing stops you there of course.
http://knol.google.com/k/inderjeet-singh/installing-a-ubuntu-hardy-heron-java/1j9pj7d01g86i/2#
Well, it depends on what you mean by 'package'. Kylix came close to being such a thing. It was QT based, and it allowed you to write once and compile for Windows + Linux. However, it was not an open source solution.
I asked a similar question in this link
http://www.24hsoftware.com/DevelopersForum/CrossPlatform-C-Library.html
and the best asnswer seems to be QT.
I have started using QT, but it is not as easy as I expected mainly due to deployment problems due to the DLL hell, Winsxs hell and manifest hell.
Tclkit is a single-file, self-contained Tcl/Tk system. The mac version I have is about 3.8 megs. You can get a version for just about any modern OS. I carry around a thumb drive that has mac, windows and linux binaries so I can run my scripts on any platform. No install is required, just copy one file wherever you want.
The most recent versions of tcklit use native, themed widgets (though, on *nix there really isn't a single "native" set of widgets...)