Engineering notes by Alexey Kasyanchuk (DEgITx) on C/C++, Android NDK, embedded Linux and multimedia — the low-level details the docs leave out.https://blog.degitx.com/endegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)degitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)Copyright 2026 Alexey Kasyanchukhttps://blog.degitx.com/blog/colorful-windows-terminal/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/colorful-windows-terminal/Making ANSI escape colors work in the Windows console from C/C++ with ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING, instead of printing raw escape characters.Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTCC++WindowsTerminalWinAPIANSIdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/amlogic_s805x_board/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/amlogic_s805x_board/A full bring-up log of a custom AmLogic s805x (GXL) board: U-Boot, kernel and DTB, USB burning tool, HDMI, audio, Ethernet, I2C RTC and power measurements.Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTEmbeddedAmLogicLinuxKernelU-BootCs805xDTBdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/c_include_android/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/c_include_android/What the Android NDK error "C_INCLUDES must be under the source or output directories" actually means and how to fix LOCAL_C_INCLUDES paths.Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTCAndroidMakefileBuildNinjadegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/mingw-full-static/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/mingw-full-static/Linking MinGW binaries fully statically with CMake to drop the libgcc_s_seh-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll runtime dependencies from your Windows build.Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTC++CMinGWArchitectureNativeCross-platformCMakeStatic linkingLinkingdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/crossplatform-arch-detection/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/crossplatform-arch-detection/Detecting CPU architecture (x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64) at compile time with portable C/C++ preprocessor macros across GCC, Clang and MSVC.Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTC++CMinGWArchitectureNativeCross-platformLinuxmacOSWindowsCMakedegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/glibc-mingw-missmatch/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/glibc-mingw-missmatch/Fixing the _ZSt28__throw_bad_array_new_lengthv linker error on MinGW - how a libstdc++ version mismatch happens and how to verify your toolchain.Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTC++CMinGWDebuggingWindowsdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/gstreamer-h264-capture/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/gstreamer-h264-capture/GStreamer from C/C++: building H264/MP4 decode pipelines, gst-launch-1.0 basics, appsink/appsrc buffer manipulation and camera capture.Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTGStreamerC++NativeAACStreamingVideodegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/android-ndk-aac/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/android-ndk-aac/Decoding AAC on Android with the NDK AMediaCodec API: SoftAAC2 internals, ADTS header alignment and why the decoder drops your first frames.Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTAndroidSDKNDKC++AACAlgorithmsdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/c-ctrlc/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/c-ctrlc/A small WinAPI trick in C++ to send a Ctrl+C (or any key combination) to an arbitrary Windows window found by its process ID.Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTCC++WinAPIWindowsdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/electron-ipc/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/electron-ipc/How to set up two-way IPC between Electron's main and renderer processes: ipcMain, ipcRenderer, webContents.send and synchronous vs asynchronous replies.Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTJavaScriptElectronIPCdegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)https://blog.degitx.com/blog/hello-all/https://blog.degitx.com/blog/hello-all/First post on the rebooted blog of Alexey Kasyanchuk (DEgITx) - notes on C/C++, Android, embedded Linux, multimedia and audio engineering.Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTMetadegitx@gmail.com (Alexey Kasyanchuk)