Ogg/Vorbis for QNX

Submitted by cdm on

I have put together some packages and sources for using Ogg/Vorbis on QNX. The package includes libao, libogg, libvorbis, ogg123, oggenc and oggdec. Also included is my CD Audio ripping tool and python script.


You can check it out here.

Mozilla 1.1 Released

Submitted by newsagent on

Mozilla 1.1 is out. See the release notes to find out what's new.

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.1

Read more for QNX binaries.QNX binaries can be found at www.openqnx.com|Download (login first) for both X Window (mozilla-xlib) and Photon (mozilla-ph). mozilla-xlib will work on both QNX 6.1 and 6.2, but mozilla-ph will only work on QNX 6.2. A separate version of mozilla-ph for QNX 6.1 is also available at the same Download area.

VT8233 audio driver available for testing

Submitted by newsagent on

Mike Gorchak announced that VIA SouthBridge VT8233C, VT8233, VT8233A (maybe VT8231, VT8235, not tested yet) audio driver available for download from:

http://mike.qnx.org.ru/vt8233/vt8233-bin-rc5.tar.gz

http://mike.qnx.org.ru/vt8233/vt8233-src-rc5.tar.gz

The main page will be soon available (next week) at http://mike.qnx.org.ru/vt8233.

eXtremeDB in-memory database ported to QNX

Submitted by newsagent on

Issaquah, WA - August 13, 2002 - As part of a new alliance with QNX Software Systems, McObject has released its eXtremeDB in-memory database system (IMDS) for the QNX® Neutrino® real-time operating system (RTOS). In eXtremeDB, developers have a proven IMDS for QNX Neutrino, and benefit from the exceptional performance, reliability and scalability delivered by this software combination.

Read the full text of the release at http://www.mcobject.com/press19.htm.

GCC 3.2 Released

Submitted by newsagent on

The GCC 3.2 release is now available. A primary objective was to stabilize the C++ ABI; It is believed that the interface to the compiler and the C++ standard library are now stable.There are almost no other bug-fixes or improvements in this compiler, relative to GCC 3.1.1. More detail about the release is available here .

Documentation and training materials available for download

Submitted by newsagent on

Recently QNX Documentation and training materials are available for free download on the QNX Developer website:

  • CD ISO image which contains the entire QNX technical library in PDF format as well as the complete IDE training videos for developers who own QNX Momentics Professional Edition.
  • Training videos covering the IDE included with QNX Momentics Professional Edition. Each video covers a specific aspect of the IDE and the developer's workflow. (Requires Microsoft Windows Media Player.)

QNX 6.2 fixes available

Submitted by heman on

An QNX 6.2 (a.k.a Momentics) fix has silently showed up at http://www.qnx.com/developer/download/updates/.

This patch increase the maximum number of unions allowed on the package filesystem. This is commonly seen when too many packages are installed, as a result some files and directories disappear.

Also showed up on the site is the GNU bison update. There is no information as what's new in this bison or why it is only available for the SE and PE version.

QNX to support SMP on MIPS-based processors

Submitted by heman on

QSSL just announced that the QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) is the first commercial RTOS to support SMP on Broadcom's SiByteTM BCM1250 processors.The BCM1250 is an intelligent on-chip multiprocessor system (CMP) that consists of two 64-bit MIPS CPU cores, each scalable from 600 MHz to 1 GHz clock speed.