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Tag Archives: Windows
Building the Android emulator for Windows
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android SDK r12 version of the emulator [Yep, r13′s out – … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, build, Cygwin, emulator, Git, MinGW, qemu, Windows
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Windows: hybrid sleep and hibernation
With the latest Windows (Vista and 7) you can select “Hybrid Sleep” as a suspend mode. In essence, it provides the fast restart of your usual sleep mode with the durability of hibernation: it writes the system state to disk … Continue reading
Pinging with Python
2011-10-12 update: Brought in more changes from Jens Diemer’s new repository for the Python 2 version of this project. 2011-09-12 update: The version here is for Python 3.x as described below. Jens Diemer posted an updated version of this to … Continue reading
Process Output Logging in Linux and Windows
As I was updating this Wikia page, I added a section about how to create a simple logfile. I thought it’d be useful to expand upon the subject here. Sometimes you want a raw log of whatever happens during a … Continue reading
Adventures Building GCC 4.6.0 for Cygwin
I decided I wanted to try out GCC using Cygwin rather than my usual Ubuntu virtual machine. In the course of this adventure I learned how to build GCC 4.6.0 for Cygwin, got my feet wet over on StackOverflow, and … Continue reading
Building ZXing for Android part 3 – Using Eclipse
Several iterations of updates below:
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Tagged Android, Ant, Barcode Scanner, building, Droid, Eclipse, subversion, success, Windows, ZXing
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Building ZXing for Android part 2 – Subversion!
Well, that was fast! I decided to give Subversion a whirl with the ZXing codebase before signing off for the night… and I apparently chose well when I selected TortoiseSVN as my Subversion client for Windows! It went very smoothly! … Continue reading
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Building ZXing for Android – lessons learned
Updated based on feedback from the ZXing team. Tonight I decided to try my hand again at building an Android app – this time, one that should in theory be easy and yet feature-rich enough to learn from. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Ant, Barcode Scanner, building, Droid, success, Windows, ZXing
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