20100309 Breakpoint demolog, day 34: VSTi+Renoise working again

I managed to compile the VST instrument for Windows. There were some odd differences between Linux and Windows in the main.cpp side of things, so at the end I just made a new main_windows.cpp and forgot about trying to wrap incompatible things with #ifdef/#endif pairs. I also had to add an esoteric .def file so [...]

20100308 Breakpoint demolog, days 32-33: moving to Windows

Since I’m going to be away from my main computer for a few days, I reformatted mrdoob’s laptop so that it could run Windows. Mind you, this is a Macbook Pro computer, which means that installing Windows is a long process, specially if you make a mistake and have to reinstall Leopard from start again! [...]

20100219 Breakpoint demolog, day 17: building for windows (from linux)

Today I decided to do something different. And I thought: Okay, I’ll try and sort out this compiling for windows issue, so that I can focus on the rest of more important things without having to worry about it any more. And guess what…? I think I managed to do it :-) Roughly, these are [...]

20090619 Bits & bites, 2

The menu for this week consists in: an appetizer of iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone development ethics coming from unsustainable sources, and some slices of funny spam which may produce you constipation, a main dish based in Opera Unite topped with a little bit of failure from Microsoft (to give a bit of a sour [...]

20090222 WGA notification tool… why?

Much to my dislike, there’s still some software which doesn’t work yet with Linux, either natively or using the fabulous Wine, so for those cases where I still need to use win32 software, I use VirtualBox and a virtual machine running Windows XP. My copy of XP is registered; I payed for it simply to [...]