Posted in linking, programming, ruby on June 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The GNU linker has some trouble when you present it with multiple library archives that depend upon each other. Libraries with symbols resolved in other libraries must be presented earlier on the command line. You can work around this with a command line argument:
“–start-group”, “–end-group”, aternatively “-(” “-)”
See the man page for LD for more [...]
Posted in game programming, games, history on June 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Here is a good article outlining the Z-machine. This is the machine that runs all of the Infocom text adventures including Zork for which the virtual machine is named. This is some really interesting engineering and you can still see the modern fruits of this online in the Parchment project
Posted in cmake, version-control on June 6th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m sure people are still using it but just tonight I was searching for a CVS command line client for windows and had some trouble finding something usable. If you’re going to use CVS you should probably just use SVN or if you’re feeling adventurous you could try a DVS. Anyways this is all so [...]
Posted in blogging on June 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Seems like over the past year or more twitter and facebook have taken over my status updates. This has led to me paying less attention to my blog which is really not a direction I meant to go in. It just sort of happens that it’s often easier to capture a thought on twitter than [...]