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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

But WHY?

There was a reddit post about installing Arch on NTFS3 partition. Since Windows and Linux doesn't have directories with same names under the /(C:\), I thought it's possible, and turned out it was actually possible.
If you are not familiar to Linux, for example you've searched on Google "how to dualboot Linux and Windos" or brbrbr... you mustn't try this. This is not practical.

Pre-requirements

UEFI system
Any Linux live-boot CD/DVD/USB... with Linux kernel newer than 5.15
Windows installer USB

Download and install msys2 64bit

Download msys2 64bit from here: https://www.msys2.org/

Update msys2

Update msys2 64bit after install by running pacman -Syu if pacman needs to be updated you might have to close and reopen the terminal and run pacman -Syu again

Install build tools

pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_mixer mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_ttf mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_net mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake make

Compile Hello World

Normalize volume level with PulseAudio and simultaneous output

This should work conceptually on any Linux OS with PulseAudio but these particular instructions are for Ubuntu. There are two major reasons for using simultaneous output. The first is self-evident - we can output to say a bluetooth headset and wired headphones at the same time to enable two people to watch a movie with headphones on a single computer. The second reason is a sort of a convenience for setup. We know the simultaneous sink name so the default.pa config would work without modification so long as simultaneous output is enabled. If we were to set this up without that, we'd have to customize the config with our specific device sink name. That's totally doable but personally I always setup simultaneous output. That's why I haven't described the alternative in this gist.

How to close CustomTab

When using CustomTab, it has no close method. To close CustomTab, should use Braodcast and call the activity which opened CustomTab again.

Good Example from Facebook SDK

I have fixed some of codes for essential behavior.

gradle setting

Add a library below.

dependencies {

	THIS GIST IS OUT OF DATE! Please use my new project template here to get started with Zig on Playdate:
	https://github.com/DanB91/Zig-Playdate-Template


	The rest of this is preservied for historical reasons:


	This is a small snippet of some code to get you started for developing for the Playdate on Zig. This code should be used as a starting point and may not compile without some massaging. This code has only been tested out on macOS and you'll need to modify the addSharedLibrary() portion of build.zig to output a .dll or .so instead of a .dylib, depending on you platform.

	This code will help you produce both an executable for the Playdate simulator and also an executable that actually run on the Playdate hardware.

	### ------------------------- Flutter.gitignore ------------------------ ###

	# Miscellaneous
	*.class
	#*.lock
	*.log
	*.pyc
	*.swp
	.DS_Store
	.atom/

	// A simple Lexer meant to demonstrate a few theoretical concepts. It can
	// support several parser concepts and is very fast (though speed is not its
	// design goal).
	//
	// J. Arrieta, Nabla Zero Labs
	//
	// This code is released under the MIT License.
	//
	// Copyright 2018 Nabla Zero Labs
	//

	//
	// cc sdl-metal-example.m `sdl2-config --cflags --libs` -framework Metal -framework QuartzCore && ./a.out
	//
	#include <SDL.h>
	#import <Metal/Metal.h>
	#import <QuartzCore/CAMetalLayer.h>

	int main (int argc, char *args[])
	{
	SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_RENDER_DRIVER, "metal");

	import os.path
	import re
	import sys


	# LZ-ish decompression scheme borrowed from picolove:
	# https://github.com/gamax92/picolove/blob/master/cart.lua
	compression_map = b"\n 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!#%(){}[]<>+=/*:;.,~_"
	def decompress(code):
	lua = bytearray()