So here’s the story.

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Feb 6, 2012 in general ramblings | 0 comments

So here’s the story. My poor monitor bit the dust, all is a lost (or so I thought at first) so I decided to do some stuff for mobile devices, already the site is mobile ready but I also want to make some apps for iOS and for android. So look for the official apps soon

Zach’s simple guide to compiling common libraries

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Jan 9, 2012 in compiling tutorials | 0 comments

Welcome all to this small guide to compiling software

first of all we need a working msys environment and a mingw installation, if you don’t have either then I suggest obtaining the MSYS/MinGW full package from this page

first we are going to go with something simple (something that will be needing to go with the bigger picture for later posts when I get to it)

first of all we are going to compile zlib

first of all we need to download the latest version of zlib (at the time of this post anyways it’s 1.2.5)

in your msys command window type in

wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

this will download zlib for you, next is to extract it using

tar xzjf zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

once that is done we will need to apply a quick patch to the source

diff -r 5a13d390f989 Makefile.in
--- a/Makefile.in    Tue Apr 20 14:59:46 2010 +0200
+++ b/Makefile.in    Tue Apr 20 17:46:22 2010 +0200
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@
-@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(sharedlibdir) ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(sharedlibdir); fi
-@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir)      ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(man3dir); fi
-@if [ ! -d $(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir) ]; then mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir); fi
-    cp $(STATICLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
-    cp $(SHAREDLIBV) $(DESTDIR)$(sharedlibdir)
+    [ -z '$(STATICLIB)'  ] || cp $(STATICLIB)  $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
+    [ -z '$(SHAREDLIBV)' ] || cp $(SHAREDLIBV) $(DESTDIR)$(sharedlibdir)
cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); chmod u=rw,go=r $(STATICLIB)
-@(cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); $(RANLIB) libz.a || true) >/dev/null 2>&1
-@cd $(DESTDIR)$(sharedlibdir); if test "$(SHAREDLIBV)" -a -f $(SHAREDLIBV); then \
diff -r 5a13d390f989 configure
--- a/configure    Tue Apr 20 14:59:46 2010 +0200
+++ b/configure    Tue Apr 20 17:46:22 2010 +0200
@@ -122,10 +122,7 @@
CYGWIN* | Cygwin* | cygwin* | OS/2*)
EXE='.exe' ;;
MINGW*|mingw*)
-# temporary bypass
rm -f $test.[co] $test $test$shared_ext
-        echo "Please use win32/Makefile.gcc instead."
-        exit 1
LDSHARED=${LDSHARED-"$cc -shared"}
LDSHAREDLIBC=""
EXE='.exe' ;;

after that patch is applied then all you need to do is run

./configure --prefix=/mingw --static
 
make && make install

there you just compiled zlib, now mind you this is nothing huge, the huge thing is when it all comes together for something big further down this tutorial guide for the final product which is how to compile mplayer2 yourself.

Microphone test for testings sake.

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Nov 15, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

this is a test of my mic but also of the player I picked. eventually I’ll be picking up my audio podcast line again

Unity on Archlinux

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Oct 28, 2011 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Just a quick test of Unity on Archlinux, I do apologize if it’s not the best video, I was kind of tired at that time and was doing this on the spot lol.

sorry about what happened

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Oct 22, 2011 in general ramblings | 0 comments

sorry about what happened recently, had some bandwith issues so I had to upgrade some packages and close previous accounts. so I manually updated the blog posts in no particular order.

where has the time gone?

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Oct 22, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Well well, where has the week gone? I can’t believe it’s friday already, anyways some updates I plan to be doing is Compile The GIMP for windows using static gtk (end result is going to be huge most likely) work on some PChat 2.0 code and hopefully get the core less dependant on gtk code as humanly as possible (and hopefully backport it to xchat and submit it as a patch) most likely I’ll be cleaning around the house too. not much of a planned weekend but it’ll have to do. Until next time folks.

New and Improved

Posted by Zach Thibeau on Oct 22, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

hey folks, old layout was getting pretty bad and same with the spam, so I figured I go with something new and use a new professional layout, also gonna post some more personal stuff here, Like for one thing I’m trying to move to Halifax Regional Area in Nova Scotia, currently money is my main problem since I have so few of it that I can’t move until I can afford it. Also shaved my beard off, it was a sad day, I wasn’t in the right frame of mind, so my face feels vulnerable and well I don’t like it lol here is me with the beard.