John McGehee

When you try to install files for East Asian languages, you are asked for a Windows XP installation disk. New computers have shipped with Windows pre-installed for a long time now, so few people have a physical Windows XP disk.  Here’s how to install without the DVD/CD-ROM.

Cross-platform CMake can generate a wide variety of build systems.  The CMake 2.8 project generator for Eclipse does not work, so you must create the project and configure it to build with GNU Make .  Here’s how to do it on Linux.

CMake creates software build systems for a wide variety of platforms based on a single, unified control file–it’s a makefile maker. You create the CMake control file once and based on this file, CMake will create almost any build environment for you: GNU Make for Linux, Eclipse project , Visual Studio solution for Windows, and the list goes on.