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A short example of how to started with Windows programming in non-Visual Studio environments. In this example, we use the MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) compiler within the Code::Blocks integrated development environment. MinGW can be obtained via the following link: http://www.mingw.org/ First select File > New > Project... and opt to create a new empty project:

A short and to-the-point post illustrating how a deadlock situation can be created in C++, together with a possible strategy for avoiding such a condition. I'm am using the boost libraries to implement threads and mutexes, but it should be possible to the standard library implementations std::thread , std::mutex etc as well.

SC.exe is commonly used to retrieve and set control information about installed Windows services. Common tasks are to configure, start and stop a service, as well as retrieve the status of a specific service. These tasks can be achieved by executing sc.exe inside a command prompt as a batch (.bat) files that can call combinations of sc.exe commands to automate startup or shutdown of services.

A demonstration of simple Internet client-server applications in C++ (Linux-based). The client application tries to connect to the remote server application using the IP address of the remote server ('localhost' or 127.0.0.1) and the server port number which defaulted to 1234. The server application listens to port number 1234 for a connection request. When the server application receives the connection request it sends the text message "Hello!\r\n" to the client.

A quick guide to setting up and installing OpenCV for using in the Code::Blocks integrated development environment in Linux. The version of Linux I am currently using is Ubuntu 14.04. At the time of writing the version of OpenCV for Linux used is 2.4.9. (I had originally tried version 2.4.10 but had problems compiling it with the version of gcc I had (4.8.2), so I reverted to 2.4.9 instead.)

Some examples of how to configure Code::Blocks to use the Boost C++ libraries: 1. Header-only (Windows) 2. Compiled libraries (Windows) 3. Compiled libraries (Ubuntu Linux) 1. Header-only (Windows) To configure Code::Blocks to use a header-only Boost library: Boost.DateTime. Select File > New > Project > Empty Project: