I’ve just spotted there is an upcoming event in March 2009 about Open Source initiatives in Mobile world: Open Source in Mobile, USA. I’ve taken a short look at the agenda and there seems to be nothing related to geospatial solutions. Nevertheless, it’s always good to see number of other FOSS-oriented foundations like GNOME, Mozilla and OSI meeting big enterprise players on the same field.
A week ago, LinuxDevices.com announced that Garmin opens source code of software used on their Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx devices.
Now, it’s confirmed that Garmin uses Linux and GNOME software, more precisely, they use GNOME Mobile platform All packages are published on dedicated webiste http://developer.garmin.com/linux/
After 22 weeks ;-) of the initial post I’m very glad to announce the first release of GDAL/OGR port for Windows CE.
Two days ago I commited all files and changes to the official GDAL CVS repository.
Today, I was porting a fairly big library to use it on Windows CE. I created a library project with eVC++ 4.0 then added source files of the library and with pretty smile on my face I hit F7. Then I was pelted with huge amount of error messages :-( Shortly, I revealed where was the problem. I thought it will bowl over everything I planned! I took a deep breath and… Simply, eVC++ 4.0 compiler, as well as VC++ 6.0 (and earlier), does not support in-place initialization of static const member data of class!
Today, I encoutered a very new for me Web gadget – blog-like interaface to wtl@yahoogroups.com – Windows Template Library support list. It’s really cool! It also provides RSS feed to WTL list, so now I can add it as a channel to my Thunderbird aggregator.
At once, I found WTL list is also available through GMANE gate, by HTTP or NNTP. Shame on me! It’s there since June 5, 2003. Better Later than Never :-)
Here it is http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.wtl
Recently, I started small investigation to find out what may I expect from the new Visual C++ 2005 compiler if I’d like to start using it for Windows CE software development. Yes, I’m still using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0, but Visual C++ 2005 seems very interesting for me. After my investigation I’m convinced it would help me to solve many problems related to low ANSI/ISO C++ standard conformance of the older eVC++ 4.0. But let’s start from the beginning.
Today, I published my first article on the Pocket PC Developer Network.
My article is a kind of crash course explaining how to use STLport with eMbedded Visual C++ compiler and IDE to develop Windows CE applications. I hope it will encourage new Windows CE software developers to try STLport. I found this STL implemenation as a great piece of software, useful in my daily work and more complete STL implementation than that shipped with eVC++ SDKs.
If you are curious what I wrote follow this link to How to use STLport with eMbedded Visual C++.