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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by Sylvester‭

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Q&A Cargo can't find installed Gtk libraries

I'm trying to build a Rust program that uses Gtk4, specifically riff, but I think any Rust program that depends on Gtk4 will reproduce this error. However, Cargo keeps complaining that various Gtk-...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Sylvester‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Sylvester‭

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Q&A Cargo can't find installed Gtk libraries

It turns out that jmb's comment was correct; my version of gio was too old. After being led by Virgil through the nine circles of dependency hell, I eventually just upgraded to Ubuntu 25. Unfortun...

posted 1y ago by Sylvester‭

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Q&A Command to format code from repo into single markdown file

You need to use backslashes (\) to escape your grave accents (`). Otherwise, Bash tries to see them as enclosing a command, as you would do in a command like echo `which python3`. So, with all the...

posted 3y ago by Sylvester‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ShadowsRanger‭

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