Many of us use macports to install common software that isn’t shipped by default on the mac. After installing MacPorts, you may want to run the following to install many useful tools: [shell] sudo -s port install cmake +gui port install doxygen port install ffmpeg port install ImageMagick port install gnuplot Read more…
Prerequisites YAML [code .sh] git clone https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git YAMLcd YAML && mkdir build && cd build && \ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_GMOCK=OFF -DBUILD_MOCK=OFF -DINSTALL_GTEST=OFF -DYAML_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DYAML_CPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF && \ make -j8 && \ make -j8 install [/code] This will install to /usr/local if you are root. Otherwise, you’ll need to do Read more…
Insert Spaces, not Tabs The tab key is great for formatting lines of code, since it will auto-indent. However, you should not allow tab characters to be inserted in your code since it causes inconsistent formatting in various editors. Rather, always insert spaces rather than tabs. In Eclipse, you can do Read more…
Google drive for educational users has unlimited cloud storage. You may want to archive your datasets there. Although you can do this through a web browser, that is very awkward when you have large amounts of files or are on a remote system where you don’t have a web browser. Read more…
If you use eclipse, there are a few shortcuts that you should know about to improve your productivity. Selecting Blocks of Text ⌘-Opt-A will put you into block select mode. This allows you to select/edit/copy/paste any block of text (e.g. a column of text). Search for and Open a File Read more…
This post is from a tip that Michael Ballantyne passed along to me. Occasionally we encounter tests that fail infrequently. Debugging these can be very frustrating. Here is one technique that can help. Debug build Add [code] -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=”-g -O3″ [/code] to your cmake configure line to include debug symbols but still do Read more…
Introduction Most of the code we develop here uses CMake as its build system. That is because CMake is highly portable (works across many platforms). However, CMake can also generate projects for various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as XCode and Eclipse. This post will show how to use CMake Read more…
Now that we are using GitLab for our repositories, there are a number of useful features in git that we will begin to use more. Branches Branches are your friend. Rather than commiting directly to `master`, you should develop on a branch. Feel free to push your branch to the Read more…
If you have an existing repository on BitBucket or elsewhere, this will show you how to move it to GitLab. Ensure that you have an account. Then log in to GitLab. From your dashboard, click the “New Project” button and then fill in the relevant information: Project path refers to the Read more…