mirror of https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.git
61 lines
1.8 KiB
PHP
61 lines
1.8 KiB
PHP
<?php
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require_once("docutil.php");
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page_head("Application development");
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echo "
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<h2>Cross-platform functions</h2>
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<p>
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Most POSIX calls are supported on Unix and Windows.
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For areas that are different (e.g. scanning directories)
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BOINC supplies some generic functions with implementations for all platforms.
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Similar code may be available from other open-source projects.
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<h2>Stack traces</h2>
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<p>
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You can use Stackwalker to generate symbolic stack traces
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if your application crashes.
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These traces will be returned in the
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'stderr_out' field of results.
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<h2>Windows-specific issues</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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The set of 'standard' DLL differs somewhat among
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9X/NT/2000/XP.
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To avoid crashing because a DLL is missing,
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call ::LoadLibrary() and then get function pointers.
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<li>
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Visual Studio: set 'Create/Use Precompiled Header' to
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'Automatically Generate' (/YX)
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in C/C++ Precompiled Header project properties.
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<li>
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Visual Studio: change 'Compile As' to
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'Compile as C++ Code (/TP)'
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in C/C++ 'Compile As' project properties.
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</ul>
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<h2>Unix-specific issues</h2>
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<p>
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Most important: use gcc-3.0, at least for linking.
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This should limit the executable to GLIBC-2.2 symbols.
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Einstein@Home builds Apps on a Debian Sarge (3.1) system,
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using the gcc-3.0 from Woody.
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Take special care of which libs to link statically and which dynamically
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if you are using e.g. OpenGL.
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<p>
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For a portable build of the BOINC Core Client I found no better way
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than to make a clean Debian Woody installation (in a VMWare machine) from DVD,
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refusing all online updates (of the GLIBC).
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However this was quite some time ago, before BOINC switched
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to ssl, curl and zlib, I don't know if and how this still works.
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<h2>Cross-language issues</h2>
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<p>
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The BOINC API is implemented in C++.
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Information about using it from C and FORTRAN is
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<a href=fortran.php>here</a>.
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";
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page_tail();
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?>
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