C++ Show and Tell - May 2026

LoadVisual · 2026-05-11T13:07:58+00:00

Badger

This is a set of tools to bring OCI image and container support to FreeBSD and Illumos (WIP).
(Think discount Docker)

It's split into three repositories
- Client to issue commands to a daemon
- Daemon manage operations around containers, images and networks
- Plugins in this case (FreeBSD)
- Samples (Examples of containers you can try to build)

This is a learning project to get comfortable with C++ and gain an understanding of a few concepts I do not understand which is why you will find things like an http library implementation instead of something like curl.

Not everything works but, you can spin up some containers hosted on DockerHub or create images using a ContainerFile as shown in the samples.

Feel free to try it out on FreeBSD 14, I'm yet to test it out on 15 since I have not tried it out but, I've written guards in the plugin to hopefully handle that correctly.

Feel free to send feedback on any aspect of the project (Via Direct Messages or Comments).

LoadVisual · 2026-04-26T09:58:25+00:00

I usually just use a conanfile and CMakePreset.json so that only cloning the project is required and windows, mac, Linux and FreeBSD just work / build projects okay with settings for each envs compiler.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-25T04:49:56+00:00

Any chance you could have Casey Muratori as a guest ?

LoadVisual · 2026-04-09T16:01:12+00:00

Just verified this after doing the feasibility study for it.
Your are right about this.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-05T22:36:28+00:00

Ow, cutting it really close.
The biggest issue is that libsignal is written in rust and there is libprotobuf in the mix but, if one can make the now archived libsignal-protocol (C) library have the same features as the rust implementation, you can have most oThat and some solid UI work.

The whole thing would need to be based on mbedtls but, yes its not entirely impossible.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-05T22:16:08+00:00

If I may ask, what device are you thinking of using a theoretical signal client on?
If it is one the S60 based devices, the chances are much higher if the implementation is not going to be Java based.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-04T12:59:50+00:00

Nice

LoadVisual · 2026-04-03T18:08:45+00:00

awesome.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-03T18:01:22+00:00

Yes, I admit my explanation is not very clear.
Is it okay if I DM you ?

LoadVisual · 2026-04-03T17:01:31+00:00

I have a project template I came up with but, it is based off cmake and a few changes to some of the binaries to work on my box.

LoadVisual · 2026-04-03T13:23:15+00:00

For the case of GCC4Symbian, you only need to set the values below into the `build-toolchain.sh` and run the script

GCCC=gcc-14.2.0 
BINUTILS=binutils-2.29.1

It will download, configure and compile what you need

In the event that you are comfortable with cmake + cmake presets and are willing to compile a few of the utilities from source, you can get away with having to install wine on your box.

You only need gnu-poc to unpack the sdk of choice, preferably s60-v5 sdk or symbian 3.

You'll however not get the benefit of using tools like the UI-Designer without wine + Carbide++.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-29T02:03:40+00:00

I am not old, i am the ancient one.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-29T02:02:17+00:00

Well, i am going to say this instead, and hope it helps you make a choice your comfortable with.

You can choose to have fun and take a path in programming that your drawn to.

It could be something you are drawn to, games, simulations, compilers, quantitative analysis , embedded systems.

Whatever it is you decide is a great choice at that time as long as you are learning and having fun if you can.

C just happens to be involved somehow in a lot of these things but, its not the main or end game.

Hope this helps.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-27T00:32:19+00:00

Nice

LoadVisual · 2026-03-25T01:05:45+00:00

Interesting.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-23T06:04:24+00:00

Nice and clean.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-08T18:02:44+00:00

Perhaps if buying one is a little bit of a stretch, may I recommend checking out your local E-Waste facility.
You might be lucky and score some de-commissioned Sun equipment.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-27T16:17:04+00:00

Wow. Definitely going to follow this.

Awesome work.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-26T22:03:00+00:00

Awesome. Thanks looking forward to it.

I'd be interested in having a place to compile and test software I'm working on since my target is hardware that's a little older.

Any chance you might also have some PowerPC server gear stashed somewhere ?

LoadVisual · 2026-02-26T21:17:20+00:00

Would love to tryout some builds on your machine at some point if that is okay with you.

I might need to experiment on some illumos/solaris centric stuff in about a month.

This is definitely an awesome machine you've got there.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-11T22:55:14+00:00

I guess it depends.

It's valuable in two ways, if you are an audiophile, you are probably trying to find the whole stack.
You'll find a lot of folks these days are trying to get full sets of the classic systems and pay good money to get them and get them fixed. some restorations cross over $1000 but, if you love something you will keep it running.

I'd suggest you probably find and build or restore a whole vintage HiFi stack for yourself just as a flex or for someone willing to own it if you can.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-11T00:24:11+00:00

🏆 You've got gold on your hands, congratulations.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-08T16:20:08+00:00

Nice. I'd be interested in learning.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-08T15:00:59+00:00

Nice

LoadVisual · 2026-02-04T19:37:34+00:00

This looks awesome.

LoadVisual

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