Update – El Capitan upgrade If you have recently upgraded to El Capitan (OSX 10.11.1) your Mesos build may be broken, due to “missing libapr-1 headers”: ../configure will cause the following error: libapr-1 is required for mesos to build. To resolve, install `apr` using `brew` and then add the `–with-apr` flag to `../configure`: brew install … More HOW-TO Build Mesos on Mac OSX – Eclipse
As I mentioned in a previous post of mine, Eclipse’s CDT (C++ Development Tools) has a few issues when used with Google C++ Unit Testing framework, but it generally works. Where CDT really gets confused is around the ‘exclusion’ of the unit tests for the non-test build configurations: as mentioned in my other post, one … More CDT Indexer & Google gtest framework
I’ve recently taken up the Eclipse team at Google (we integrate Google’s internal build tools and distributed development environment with the Eclipse Platform) and we are constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining several distributions in a multi-user environment.I thought I’d use some of the goodness we’ve come up with in my home environment too, … More Automating Eclipse launch
When executing a “clean run” of Eclipse (typically, after p2 has completely messed up your installation and you’ve lost critical functionality / plugins — the only reliable remedy I’ve found thus far, is to wipe ~/.eclipse, and restart from scratch) the ‘Available Update Sites’ is an empty list.Googling the information proves every time a complete … More Eclipse (Indigo) Update site
If you have read my previous post about adding the gTest framework to your C++ project, you are very likely to have spent quite some time scratching your head trying to figure out how to make it play nicely with Eclipse’s CDT, and its (let’s face it) not terribly well-developed concept of ‘Build Configurations’.Especially coming … More Eclipse CDT and Google GTest
Boost is an open source library of extremely useful and carefully designed C++ classes and methods ranging from graph algorithms, to regular expressions matching, to multi-threading.Part of the Boost library was also integrated into the C++ standard as the TR1 set of libraries.You can learn more about Boost here.Using it with Eclipse in Ubuntu is … More Using Boost in Ubuntu with Eclipse
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