Ubuntu 11 on VMWare Server install failure workaround

I've tried several times to install Ubuntu 11.10 on VMWare Server, always having it fail at the first (maybe second?) hurdle of failing to acquire 4.4 GB of hard drive space. On a whim, I elected to create IDE rather than SCSI (virtual) drives, and it works!

Installing log4cxx with Visual C++

This post describes how to download and build log4cxx for Visual C++. The following steps assume that you do not have the Platform SDK (2003+) installed. If you do, some steps - noted as "not necessary if you have Platform SDK (2003+) installed" - are not necessary.

Download:

1. Download log4cxx from http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/download.html. I downloaded apache-log4cxx-0.10.0.zip.
2. Download APR (Apache Portable Runtime) from http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi. I downloaded apr-1.4.2-win32.zip.
3. Download APR-Util from http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi. I downloaded apr-util-1.3.10-win32.zip.

Install:

1. Unzip each archive under C:\3pty, resulting in directories C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0, C:\3pty\apr-1.4.2, and C:\3pty\apr-util-1.3.10.
2. The log4cxx Visual Studio projects assume peer directories named apr and apr-util, so the version-specific directories must be copied (or renamed) accordingly. I choose to copy, in case I need to revert.
3. Copy directory C:\3pty\apr-1.4.2 to C:\3pty\apr, by issuing command: C:\3pty>xcopy /E /I apr-1.4.2 apr
4. Copy directory C:\3pty\apr-1.4.2 to C:\3pty\apr, by issuing command: C:\3pty>xcopy /E /I apr-util-1.3.10 apr-util

Customise:

1. Edit C:\3pty\apr-util\include\apu.hw, changing two lines:
• The line containing #define APU_HAVE_ODBC 1 is changed to #define APU_HAVE_ODBC 0. NOTE: this step is not necessary if you have Platform SDK (2003+) installed.
• The line containing #define APU_HAVE_APR_ICONV 1 is changed to #define APU_HAVE_APR_ICONV 0.
2. Edit C:\3pty\apr-util\include\apr_ldap.hw, changing one line:
• The line containing #define APU_HAS_LDAP 1 is changed to #define APU_HAS_LDAP 0.
3. Open C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0\projects\log4cxx.dsw, navigate into the aprutil project, into the dbd folder, and select the apr_dbd_odbc.c file. Open the settings for this file (right-click Settings, or press Alt-F7), select the General tab, and check Exclude file from build. Do this for all configurations. NOTE: this step is not necessary if you have Platform SDK (2003+) installed. Close Visual Studio.
4. At the project root level - in C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0 - execute the command configure. Do not execute the command configure-aprutil, unless you're working within cygwin.

Build:

1. Open C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0\projects\log4cxx.dsw, select Batch Build from the Build menu, then check the bottom two options log4cxx - Win32 Debug and log4cxx - Win32 Release, and press the Build button. There'll be a bunch of warnings, but at the end you should find it has built the DLLs C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0\projects\debug\log4cxx.dll and C:\3pty\apache-log4cxx-0.10.0\projects\release\log4cxx.dll.

Installing Digital Mars C/C++ compiler on Windows

This post describes how to download and configure the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler (DMC++) for Windows.

1. Download DMC++ from http://ftp.digitalmars.com/Digital_Mars_C++/Patch/dm852c.zip.
2. Unzip into C:\Programs\dm\Compilers\dm852, creating the directory compiler suite root directory C:\Programs\dm\Compilers\dm852\dm.
3. Download  STLport 4.5.3 from http://ftp.digitalmars.com/Digital_Mars_C++/STL/stlport.zip
   
4. Unzip into C:\Programs\dm\Compilers\dm852, overwriting any files for which you're prompted
5. Edit C:\Programs\dm\Compilers\dm852\dm\bin\sc.ini, changing the line
       INCLUDE="%@P%\..\include";"%@P%\..\mfc\include";%INCLUDE%
   to
       INCLUDE="%@P%\..\stlport\stlport";"%@P%\..\include";"%@P%\..\mfc\include";%INCLUDE%

Adding yourself to sudo on Red Hat

First, you need to change to be root:

> su

Password:

Second, edit the sudoers file with visudo:

> /usr/sbin/viduso

Then add the following line (substituting your user name for matthew):

    matthew    ALL=(ALL) ALL

Finally, log out and back in again.

Reboot Windows system immediately

Using shutdown command, specifying wait of 0 seconds:

> shutdown -r -t 0

Reboot Linux system immediately

Using shutdown command, specifying wait of 0 seconds:

> shutdown -r +0

Usually you won't have privileges, so do it as super-user:

> sudo shutdown -r +0

Getting dos2unix on Ubuntu

To get the tools onto the box, use:

> sudo apt-get install tofrodos

For Ubuntu 10, dos2unix does not exist; the tools fromdos and todos are defined instead. So, either add aliases:

> alias dos2unix=fromdos

or a link:

> ln -s fromdos dos2unix