Category Archives: IDEs

compiling windows apps on linux

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

now that we successfully used cmake to compile a linux app (in the last article), we will now try and compile it for windows. I am doing this on Gentoo linux, so your mileage may vary if you used a … Continue reading →

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Cross platform development with the Eclipse CDT

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

So, you want to create an application that can un under both Linux and Windows? This is my experiment trying to do just that… Lets see if the Eclipse CDT is robust to do cross platform development! Step 1: Install … Continue reading →

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Installing eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Today was the day to get eclipse going on Gentoo. I downloaded the latest version (3.3) and dropped it into /opt/eclipse. I fired it up and got: # ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for eclipse on Gentoo

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4. Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ the first thing … Continue reading →

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Eclipse mylyn mantis integration

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

I set up mantis connect today on our server… it was very easy: just drop the “mc” directory from the archive (and it’s subdirectory) to the Mantis root directory. do not use the distribution from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisconnect as it does not … Continue reading →

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first thoughts about eclipse 3.3

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

After my first full week of using Eclipse (having moved away from JBuilder) I thought I would list some of my thoughts: The visual editor sucks. Jbuilder 2005/6 and Netbeans have eclipse beat here. I hope this area improves soon. … Continue reading →

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abandoning jbuilder, going to eclipse

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

With a heavy heart, I am now offficially abandoning JBuilder, and moving to Eclipse. I will spend the next month playing with Eclipse 3.3 while it is in the final stages prior to release. I am currently using 3.3m3 The … Continue reading →

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what is going on here

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

after reporting my issues connecting to xplanner from jbuilder (adding a task repository) I got an email from codegear support. The support tech (Chee Wee Chua) told me: From the main menu, access Window, Preferences, Team, CVS, Proxy Settings. Set … Continue reading →

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xplanner issues connecting

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

When I try and create a task repository using xplanner from the IDE, and enter what I think is a valid url, name and pwd, I get the followin g error msg: The supplied credentials are invalid nested exception is: … Continue reading →

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project assist stacks

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Andy Dingfelder

Because of install issues with projectAssist (it would not successfully install bugzilla or xplanner) I manually installed all the components, including: Tomcat 5.5.23 Apache 2.2.4 Mysql 5.0.37 Perl 5.8.8.817 (ActiveState) Liferay 4.2.1 Continuum 1.0.3 Xplanner 0.7b Bugzilla 3.0 Subversion 1.4.3 … Continue reading →

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