Sunday, April 11, 2021

Converting a project to Meson: the olc Pixel Game Engine

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Meson's development has always been fairly practical focusing on solving real world problems people have. One simple way of doing that i...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Never use environment variables for configuration

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Suppose you need to create a function for adding two numbers together in plain C. How would you write it? What sort of an API would it have?...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Writing a library and then using it as a Meson dependency directly from upstream Git

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Meson has many ways of obtaining dependencies. The most common is pkg-config for prebuilt dependencies and the WrapDB for building upstream...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Microsoft is shipping a product built with Meson

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Some time ago Microsoft announced a compatibility pack to get OpenGL and OpenCL running even on computers whose hardware does not provide na...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Mixing Rust into an existing C shared library using Meson

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Many people are interested in adding Rust to their existing projects for additional safety. For example it would be convenient to use Rust f...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Millennium prize problems but for Linux

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There is a longstanding tradition in mathematics to create a list of hard unsolved problems to drive people to work on solving them. Example...
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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong

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For as long as programming languages have existed, people have fought over which one of them is the fastest. These debates have ranged from ...
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