Posted by berkus, Fri Sep 07 16:40:00 UTC 2007, in sigc skype windows

Converting skype to not use libsigc++ was indeed easy with the first, simpler, approach. Polling code now works, skype runs, and I have a slight feeling it eats a little bit less cpu when idle. Must be my imagination.

Since it's Friday, instead of working on my bugfixes pipeline I ventured into uncharted territory of Qt for Windows and compiling with Microsoft compiler. Qt itself builds and works fine, but I want to build Skype with it. I started cleaning up my code, commenting out pieces that are too hard to rewrite correctly for gcc and msc this time, marking other things that need to be changed and went on into about a quarter of my source code. Then I hit some more complex things and left this excercise for later. I'm looking a Windows programming specialist around the office, so we can sit and go through the hoops together.

Now I'm going to sketch some ideas for future Skype UI, I'm sure it's gonna be more than just fun.

Oh, and mushroom soup was excellent. Thanks.