This is the first document in what may become a series of docs on cross-platform development using pure C (not C++) along with commonly available libraries.

A brief aside about my background for newcomers: I’m experienced with Python and C++ (although admittedly rusty in the latter), and I’ve written straight C as well (in college, for work, for GNU Typist). However, I feel my C skills are not as strong as they could be.

Basically, I know how to program and am not interested in reinventing the wheel. My focus is on developing my skills with practical C development, using any open source available libraries which I can along with, if feasible/possible, the MinGW/MSys toolchain.

This first article is a tutorial of how to use GLib with the autotools on Windows via MinGW/MSys.

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Well, another year has come around, and with it, the New Year’s holiday here in Japan. Just got to enjoy a full week off of work, of which I’ve mostly spent just to unwind. I was planning to do development during this time, but it didn’t really happen – ran into problems with gettextize and Read more about Happy New Year, and stuff[…]

Last time, I discussed some of the issues about localizing a Python app in Windows. This time, I’m providing a simple demo app which shows how localization can be accomplished. To avoid an overly verbose explanation, I’ve set up a GitHub repo with the code, a sample .po file, plus some scripts for easily creating Read more about gettext, Python, and Windows: a simple demo[…]

The next major hurdle with J-Ben, which I have not solved yet, involves multi-language support using gettext. In general, Python makes this easy. Python supports gettext-style string substitution via the gettext module. I’ve tested this, and it works great… on POSIX. What about Windows? The problem on Windows is that locale names are different than Read more about I18N with gettext and Python on Windows 7[…]

I’ve started to implement searching for kanji from the command line. It’s not much so far, but it may be of mild interest. Japanese search via kunyomi/nanori: C:\code\projects\jblite>c:\python26\python -m jblite.kd2 data\kd2.sqlite3 ほとり Searching for “%ほとり%”, lang=None… READINGS: ID: 2298, literal: 畔 ID: 2396, literal: 瀕 ID: 4368, literal: 滸 ID: 4400, literal: 濆 ID: 5977, Read more about Kanji searching added to JBLite’s kd2 module[…]