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8 articles 213 minute read #rust #image-processing #static-linking complete

Don't shell out!

In this series, I change a critical component of this website's asset pipeline from "just calling a bunch of external tools" to statically linking with everything I need to process assets. It involves autoconf, CMake, Meson, CI, pkg-config, and some code crimes.

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Series overview

1. Truly headless draw.io exports
Dec 31, 2021
23 minute read
#svg #electron #chromium
2. From Inkscape to poppler
Dec 31, 2021
22 minute read
#rust #ffi #pdf #svg
3. A static poppler build: the easy way
Dec 31, 2021
33 minute read
#build-systems #autotools #cmake #pkg-config
4. Building poppler for Windows
Dec 31, 2021
35 minute read
#build-systems #pkg-config #cmake
5. Porting poppler to meson
Dec 31, 2021
24 minute read
#build-systems #meson
6. Productionizing our poppler build
Dec 31, 2021
45 minute read
#rust #build-systems #meson
7. The rest of the fucking owl
Dec 31, 2021
18 minute read
#rust #avif #webp
8. One funny way to bundle assets
Jan 02, 2022
13 minute read
#rust

This series is complete.

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