clang++ is awesome, goodbye g++

By On September 9, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Computer Science

I finally got around to reading up on the clang compiler and I love it. The error messages are so helpful. Here’s a quick example with a syntax error. Lets compile it on the command line.

#include <iostream> int main() { std::cotut << “Hello World”; return 0; }

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Objective-C/C++ iPhone Build Failures

By On November 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In iPhone

If you’re working with Objective-C/C++ (i.e. mixing both languages) in an iPhone/Mac application you may come across some strange errors in the build process due to a configuration issue.

error: bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory

One of my projects, Texture Evolution was a Mac application that referenced a C++ Mac library. About 6 months [...]

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GLUT Object Oriented Framework on Github

By On August 22, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Computer Graphics

In 2009 I took a Computer Animation course at @RIT I created an object-oriented C++ wrapper for GLUT. The idea was to create a set of classes that could be reused for each of the separate project submissions. The main class wraps around the GLUT C-style functions and provides a class that can be inherited [...]

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C++ Logging and building Boost for iPhone/iPad 3.2 and MacOSX

By On April 8, 2010 · 12 Comments · In iPhone

In my effort to write more robust and maintainable code I have been searching for a cross-platform C++ logging utility. I’m working on a C++ static library for iPhone/iPad 3.2/Mac/Windows and I needed a way to log what was happening in my library. Along the way I was forced to build Boost for [...]

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iPhone Player/Stage Remote Control

By On August 20, 2009 · 13 Comments · In iPhone

Here’s the iPhone Player/Stage Remote Control project! There’s a .pdf that describes how to setup Xcode in the .zip file.

The goal of this project was to use the Player/Stage robotics code on the iPhone to communicate and control robots. I discuss how to setup the Xcode development environment. There are two [...]

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OpenGL/GLUT, Classes (OOP), and Problems

By On July 31, 2009 · 18 Comments · In Animation Project

Update: 8/22/10 Checkout the updated framework and post: http://paulsolt.com/2010/08/glut-object-oriented-framework-on-github/

I created a C style driver program that used OpenGL/GLUT for my computer animation course projects. It worked fine for the first project. However, there were multiple projects and they all started to use the same boiler plate code. In order to [...]

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Sorting Object Pointers in C++

By On January 13, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Animation Project

Today I was working on my computer animation project using C++, Boost, STL, and OpenGL. I ran into a few hitches related to pointers and the STL (Standard Template Library) and I decided to blog about it.

Problem: You can’t override the default operator<  for the pointer type, so you have to make a class/structure [...]

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