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8 articles 109 minute read rust · image-processing · static-linking

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.

Series overview

1. Truly headless draw.io exports

Dec 31, 2021

17 minute read

svg · electron · chromium

2. From Inkscape to poppler

Dec 31, 2021

13 minute read

rust · ffi · pdf · svg

3. A static poppler build: the easy way

Dec 31, 2021

15 minute read

build-systems · autotools · cmake · pkg-config

4. Building poppler for Windows

Dec 31, 2021

9 minute read

build-systems · pkg-config · cmake

5. Porting poppler to meson

Dec 31, 2021

16 minute read

build-systems · meson

6. Productionizing our poppler build

Dec 31, 2021

24 minute read

rust · build-systems · meson

7. The rest of the fucking owl

Dec 31, 2021

8 minute read

rust · avif · webp

8. One funny way to bundle assets

Jan 02, 2022

7 minute read

rust

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