Yet another double entry from me today. My last addition to the previous entry stated that I'd finished with the signal and event system, and as such I'd crossed it off my list of things to do. However I'm uncomfortable with the adhoc testing I've given the system so far given how critical it will be. I'd feel happier if I built a unit test. This requires me to write a unit testing system which I'm currently planning and writing.

I also discovered I hadn't yet installed Boost for Code::Blocks on my PC. After cursing a bit to get Boost.Jam to work properly it's now compiling as I type this up. Hopefully it'll compile more or less successfully.

The other little snag is the next item on my checklist is the logging system, and that requires me to do some cross-platform friendly file I/O. This reminded me that I needed to set everything up nicely for cross-platform work, so I've been figuring out a system to get that working too.

Since this is my first cross-platform project I wasn't sure on the best way to organise my code. My current plan is to try and make everything as cross-platform friendly as possible, use preprocessor commands for anything small that's platform dependent, and rely on seperate files for larger elements that vary across systems. For now I've just got a header file called dgl_build.hpp that defines build and OS flags that get linked in with the compiler, i.e:

#define DGL_DEBUG_BUILD             1#define DGL_PLATFORM_WIN32          1

Then the compiler can just link to whichever is appropriate.

I'm still not sure on what the best way is to deal with the differing file systems. I'm assuming that I can std::ofstream without any trouble, but I don't know about where I should be saving these log files. Previously I've been saving them within the application directory itself, but that isn't particularly good form. I'm not sure if there's a nice way to find where an operating system expects files like that to go.

Currently I'm planning on experimenting with Boost.filesystem (once it compiles), and see if I can get some insight. I'll probably end up hard coding in where the user directories are for various platforms - although now I think of it I can't remember if there were differences in various forms of Windows.

Additional:

How flippin' long does it take to install Boost??! Plus the annoying thing is I've installed it into a generic directory when really I'd like to put it in with the Code::Blocks libs and include files so I'll have to install it again. [headshake]

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