After years of cracking serious actionscript and building dope Flash apps and Microsites without the fear of things breaking randomly when ran on old browsers that also happened to be our users’ favorite according to some statistics… I decided to take on new challenges and Ajax it a little, which I did and I am very grateful for the opportunity. The product I built is not out for public yet so I can’t really discuss it but I will post info about once we get the green light from our PM and PR.
Now, I decided that it would be nice to get a little deeper and do some low level stuff. Why the hell not? How about some graphics and videos in C++. Sounds great doesn’t it? But what if I want to build my stuff on Ubuntu and my teammates are working on Macs and PCs?
So I decided to take the bull by the horns, follow the rules for cross platform development and things should just work. Not quite the case… I used Eclipse since it is a cross platform dev. tool and boost library since it is also a cross platform framework to build a simple echo server that spits out video frames to a TCP/IP socket. The project worked great on my ubuntu box and things were pretty happy on my desk until I decided to take that code and run it in my Windows machine using Eclipse CDT, MinGW and Gnu Make ( since they all claim to be cross platform and so I can be consistent ). And before I knew it, I spent a good 10 hours sitting on my chair wrestling with integrating boost with my tool chain. I am not sure if it is just hard by nature to do things like this or I am just too stupid for the task… 14 hours later, I gave up and went ahead, took everyone’s advice and installed Visual Studio 2008 and my server was up and running in minutes.
I have to say that although I have it running on VS 08, I am still uneasy about it and I am gonna have to go back to it another day when I am less frustrated and try again. Hopefully I will get to blog on the steps I took to get it set up.
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