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I'm primarily a Unix developer, but some of the code that I maintain has to run on Windows. Here's a list of useful things for other Unix programmers that are put into this position. | I'm primarily a Unix developer, but some of the code that I maintain has to run on Windows. Here's a list of useful things for other Unix programmers that are put into this position. | ||
; MinGW | |||
: These days I'm primarily doing my Windows development on a Macintosh computer using mingw as a cross-compiler. For instructions on how to do this download either my bulk_extractor program or afflib and look for the file "make_mingw.sh" in the root directory. | |||
; Microsoft VC++ | |||
: Microsoft makes "express" versions of its Basic, C#, C++ and J# compilers available [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ for free]. Presumably this is to compete against cygwin, which lets you compile and run traditional Linux/Unix free software on Windows. (I don't like using [http://www.cygwin.com/ cygwin] myself, becuase it requires the use of a special Cygwin DLL, it has traditionally had problems with multi-threading, and there have been performance issues in the past. But for many jobs Cygwin is probably just fine.) | |||
;Cryptography on Windows | |||
: Windows has a built-in CryptoAPI that can perform most cryptographic functions, but the API is completely non-standard. Microsoft posted an [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccrypto/security/hashing.asp example C program to calculate the MD5 hash of a file using the CryptoAPI]. Getting this program to actually compile requires that you install the Platform SDK in addition to the C++ compiler. Successfully linking the proram requires information not present on the MSDN web page. I have uploaded the [http://www.simson.net/ref/winmd5/winmd5.cpp source code] and a [http://www.simson.net/ref/winmd5/winmd5.mak makefile for Microsoft's NMAKE] to this server. | |||
;SSH, XTERM, and other remote access applications | |||
; MobaXterm | |||
: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net This seems to be the best remote access solution for Windows. It includes a command line, SSH, X server, and many other useful resources. | |||
; Screen shots on windows | |||
: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/997175/how-can-i-take-a-screenshot-and-save-it-as-jpeg-on-windows | |||
: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7292757/how-to-get-screenshot-of-a-window-as-bitmap-object-in-c | |||
: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5610075/taking-a-jpeg-encoded-screenshot-to-a-buffer-using-gdi-and-c | |||
: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531684/what-is-the-best-way-to-take-screenshots-of-a-window-with-c-in-windows | |||
: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659932/how-to-read-the-screen-pixels | |||
: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5051/Various-methods-for-capturing-the-screen | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:36, 3 November 2012
Windows Development
I'm primarily a Unix developer, but some of the code that I maintain has to run on Windows. Here's a list of useful things for other Unix programmers that are put into this position.
- MinGW
- These days I'm primarily doing my Windows development on a Macintosh computer using mingw as a cross-compiler. For instructions on how to do this download either my bulk_extractor program or afflib and look for the file "make_mingw.sh" in the root directory.
- Microsoft VC++
- Microsoft makes "express" versions of its Basic, C#, C++ and J# compilers available for free. Presumably this is to compete against cygwin, which lets you compile and run traditional Linux/Unix free software on Windows. (I don't like using cygwin myself, becuase it requires the use of a special Cygwin DLL, it has traditionally had problems with multi-threading, and there have been performance issues in the past. But for many jobs Cygwin is probably just fine.)
- Cryptography on Windows
- Windows has a built-in CryptoAPI that can perform most cryptographic functions, but the API is completely non-standard. Microsoft posted an example C program to calculate the MD5 hash of a file using the CryptoAPI. Getting this program to actually compile requires that you install the Platform SDK in addition to the C++ compiler. Successfully linking the proram requires information not present on the MSDN web page. I have uploaded the source code and a makefile for Microsoft's NMAKE to this server.
- SSH, XTERM, and other remote access applications
- MobaXterm
- http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net This seems to be the best remote access solution for Windows. It includes a command line, SSH, X server, and many other useful resources.
- Screen shots on windows
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/997175/how-can-i-take-a-screenshot-and-save-it-as-jpeg-on-windows
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7292757/how-to-get-screenshot-of-a-window-as-bitmap-object-in-c
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5610075/taking-a-jpeg-encoded-screenshot-to-a-buffer-using-gdi-and-c
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531684/what-is-the-best-way-to-take-screenshots-of-a-window-with-c-in-windows
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2659932/how-to-read-the-screen-pixels
- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5051/Various-methods-for-capturing-the-screen
