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Building Win32 guitest

Visitor — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:28:58 +0000

Building win32 guitest in May of 2007 is non-trivial. I posted a recipie at https://www.kleinfelter.com/build-ruby-guitest-win32

Hi Frank! :-) Yep, I'm stuck with Ruby forever, I guess.

Michael Geary — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:45:04 +0000

Hi Frank! :-) Yep, I’m stuck with Ruby forever, I guess.

Anyone who wonders what the heck Frank is talking about, here is the full story.

I like to use:

asdf — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:53:31 +0000

I like to use:

template <class T, unsigned S> char (& lengthof(T (&)[S])) [S];

#define lengthof(a) (sizeof(lengthof(a)))

That way it protects against doing a lengthof on a pointer instead of an array. Doesn’t work for local types though because of the way C++ templates work but you run into those rarely and easy to work around.

Just can't get away from that

Frank — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:33:41 +0000

Just can’t get away from that Ruby code, eh, Mike?

It could be any of the reasons that you might have structured th

Michael Geary — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:33:17 +0000

It could be any of the reasons that you might have structured the code as a large DLL and stub EXE in the first place. For example, you may want to make some of your code available to other apps with an in-process COM server or DLL interface.

Or it may be a case like the Python interpreter, where python.exe is a console app and pythonw.exe is a GUI app. Each of these is a small stub that loads Python23.dll, the Python interpreter itself.

Basically anything like that, where you might want to have a couple of different versions of the .exe itself but have most of the code shared between them. It could even be something as trivial as needing to run two instances of your app for different purposes but wanting them to show up with different names in Task Manager.

I'm curious why you'd want to do the conversion...

Mike Sax — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:15:11 +0000

I’m curious why you’d want to do the conversion… The only reason that comes to mind would be to implement a “check for updates” feature in the EXE that can replace the core of the app on the fly without file-in-use issues. Well, as I’m typing this, also maybe loading a version of your app compiled for a specific OS (like a Unicode-only version). Are there any other good reasons?

Thanks for the sharp eye, Stephanie.

Michael Geary — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:07:58 +0000

Thanks for the sharp eye, Stephanie. That’s what I get for posting in the wee hours! Fixed now.

Small typo in the last code bl

Stephane Lajoie — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 07:18:24 +0000

Small typo in the last code block: elementsof(pszPath) should be elementsof(szPath).