portability

The history of Encoding Schemes / multiple Operating Systems and Endian-nes have led to a mess in terms of encoding all forms of string data (--i.e., all alphabets); for this reason protocol buffers only deals with ASCII or UTF-8 in its string types, and I can't see any polymorphic overloads that accept the C++ wstring. The question then is how is one expected to get a UTF-16 string into a protocol buffer ? Presumably I need to keep the data as a wstring in my application code and then perform a UTF-8 conversion before I stuff it into (or extract from) the message. What is the simplest -

I have a C project that is designed to be portable to various (PC and embedded) platforms. Application code will use various calls that will have platform-specific implementations, but share a common (generic) API to aid in portability. I'm trying to settle on the most appropriate way to declare the function prototypes and structures. Here's what I've come up with so far: main.c: #include "generic.h" int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int ret; gen_t *data; ret = foo(data); ... } generic.h: (platform-agnostic include) typedef struct impl_t gen_t; int foo (gen_t *data); impl.h: (platform

Having been a PHP developer on LAMP servers for quite a while, is there anything that I will need to take into consideration while preparing an application for IIS on windows. Make sure you get the FastCGI extension for IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0. It is the single most important thing you can have when running PHP under IIS. Also this article should get you setup: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/247/using-fastcgi-to-host-php-applications-on-iis-60/ Everything beyond this is simple, MySQL and what not. Kev We just rolled out PHP 5.2.6 + FastCGI on our shared hosting platform without any problems. As

I'm looking to create the following: A portable version of python that can be run on any system (with any previous version of python or no python installed) and have it pre-configured with various python packages (ie, django, lxml, pysqlite, etc) The closest I've found to the above is virtualenv , but this only goes so far. If I package up a nice virtualenv for python on one machine, it contains sym links to a lot of the libraries it needs. I can take those sym links and convert them to their actual files, but if I try to move this entire directory to another machine, I get seg fault after seg

Possible Duplicate: How do I create a HashCode in .net (c#) for a string that is safe to store in a database? I use C# 4.0 and gets the string hash by invoking: "my string".GetHashCode() Code generated by this call is stored into database to future use. This hash code is used to find some subset of strings and then to equal comparison. Questions are: Is it a standardized hash calculation? May I assume that it is possible to calculate the same hash in different environments like C# in .Net 3.0 or future .Net editions? Is it possible to calculate the same hash function on yourself by writing it

Different compilers seem to have different ideas about TR1. G++ only seems to accept includes of the type: #include <tr1/unordered_map> #include <tr1/memory> ... While Microsofts compiler only accept: #include <unordered_map> #include <memory> ... As for as I understand TR1, the Microsoft way is the correct one. Is there a way to get G++ to accept the second version? How does one in general handle TR1 in a portable way? Install boost on your machine. Add the following directory to your search path. <Boost Install Directory>/boost/tr1/tr1 see here boost tr1 for details Now when you include