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Building the FreeGLUT libraries is really trivial with the relatively recent support of CMake, so I’m posting it here only for my own reference to be honest. If you are looking for the pre-built binaries of FreeGLUT see binaries page. Preparation Of course you need CMake and Visual Studio, as well as the FreeGLUT source […]

UPDATE [15 Nov 2013]: For the latest binaries visit my Precompiled Boost libraries dedicated page. Build scripts and instructions are also included. These are my notes for building Boost with Boost.Python and Boost.Locale support for both Win32 and Win64 using MSVC 2010 Ultimate. If you just want to use the pre-built libraries with Boost.Python (Python) […]

I noticed that there are people trying to come up with a way to extract .tar.gz files in one go on Windows. For instance, I was reading: How can I unzip a .tar.gz in one step (using 7-Zip)? While on a unix system this is trivial, with 7-zip on Windows this becomes a two-step process. […]

[Update: I devised an improved method to create command prompts for Visual Studio 2008, 2010 and 2012 all-in-one.] I open a command prompt so often that it has become a burden to have to use a stock cmd shortcut and cd to the right directory. It is easy to add an option to the context […]

You don’t need Acrobat for this. GhostScript does an excellent job. I’ve used this under Cygwin as well as my gentoo, but should work on any platform gs runs on. Here is a stab at a simple bash script: #!/bin/bash usage() { echo “$0 {first page} {last page} {input pdf file} {output pdf file}” } […]