Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS [NOT Fully Solved]

2015-02-09 Thread Marc Weustink

Donald Ziesig wrote:

There is still one residual problem.  Right now I am developing and
testing on Linux with the files on NTFS using ntfs-3g with case
sensitive file names.  Everything seems to be ok until I get a
compilation error at which point I get two editor windows pointing to
the same file with tabs showing:

MyFileMyFile(2)


This has to do with the difference between the path of the opened file 
and the path reported by the compiler.


This one I've never seen, but when debugging I had te same when gdb 
reports its paths.


Try to find out if tere is a difference in casing between the 2 files

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-09 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:41:45 -0800
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]
 For a long time , I am not using a common  .lpi file for different
 operating systems ,
 but I looked at existing .lpi files in different operating systems (
 FreeBSD , Linux , Windows ) ,
 they are containing
 
 /usr/home/...
 /home/.../
 H:\...

These are probably from you session data, which you can store
separately (Project Options / Session / Save session
information).

For projects using svn or git choose Save lps in project
directory.
For projects using shared mounts, choose Save lps in IDE config
directory.

New projects are created with the first option (project directory).

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de
wrote:

 On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 17:45:58 -0800
 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

 [...]
  In the same directory , for example , in an NFS directory :
 
  When an .lpi file is loaded in an OS , file names recorded in other OSes
  are causing trouble .

 For example?

  During save of an .lpi file , Lazarus is saving the .lpi file in its
  current OS structure , by breaking the .lpi for the other OSes .

 For example?

 Mattias

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To use a same source tree from different operating systems , it is
necessary to use a server , such as NFS ( which is located on a Unix server
, I could not create a NFS server in Windows ) .

To access from Windows to a NFS server , it is necessary to use a Samba
server in the NFS server ( I could not create a NFS client in Windows ) .


The above structure means , the same source files are in different
locations in different client computers with respect to mount points ( for
example , in Linux /home/... , in FreeBSD /usr/home/... , in Windows H:\...
) .

When the SAME .lpi is loaded in an operating system which is containing
file names set in another operating system is producing error messages
during loading because there is no such files in that operating system .

Assume , incorrect file names are corrected at the .lpi when loaded , and
saved .

Another operating system is starting to give error messages during loading
the same .lpi file , because it is not able to find the specified files
because there is no any such directories in itself .


To remedy this mix up is to use different directories and .lpi files with
respect to operating systems for the same source tree .


Another remedy may be to use a Web site instead of an NFS server in the
server and use URL for file names in everywhere such as .lpi ,  units and
.cfg files similar to Go language . Such a facility will also allow use of
sources staying in any web server at the same source tree .

Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-08 Thread Bart
On 2/8/15, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

 The above structure means , the same source files are in different
 locations in different client computers with respect to mount points ( for
 example , in Linux /home/... , in FreeBSD /usr/home/... , in Windows H:\...
 ) .

You should not have absolute paths in your .lpi.
None of my project have and they build without modification on all targets.

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[Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS [NOT Fully Solved]

2015-02-08 Thread Donald Ziesig
There is still one residual problem.  Right now I am developing and 
testing on Linux with the files on NTFS using ntfs-3g with case 
sensitive file names.  Everything seems to be ok until I get a 
compilation error at which point I get two editor windows pointing to 
the same file with tabs showing:


MyFileMyFile(2)

If I re-compile, a window pops up telling me that the file on disk has 
changed and asking if I would like to reload.  If I press reload I get 
the modified file, else I get the file from before the compilation 
error.  Strangely, the compilation error will re-occur even with the 
modified file showing in the source editor and the unmodified file 
closed in the source editor.  It doesn't seem to matter if I use 
file-contents or file timestamp to determine the modification state 
of the file.  Also, I have looked on the disk and see only the 
MyFile.pas, never MyFile(2).pas.


There is a simple work-around (which might give someone a clue as to the 
cause).  If I explicitly save the modified files before starting 
compilation the problem never occurs.  (I just have to remember to do it 
;-) ).


This never occurs when the files are on the Linux ext4 file system.

Don Ziesig

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-08 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 06:40:39 -0800
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]
 Some file names are generated by Lazarus as complete paths .

For example?

 Therefore , they are not related to relative paths .

Mattias

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-08 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de
 wrote:

 On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 06:40:39 -0800
 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

 [...]
  Some file names are generated by Lazarus as complete paths .

 For example?

  Therefore , they are not related to relative paths .

 Mattias

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For a long time , I am not using a common  .lpi file for different
operating systems ,
but I looked at existing .lpi files in different operating systems (
FreeBSD , Linux , Windows ) ,
they are containing

/usr/home/...
/home/.../
H:\...

which I never write them myself , because I am always using relative paths
in everywhere including
unit source file includes : {$I ../.. ... } .


Since a very long time , I am never using \ in file names started in
Windows .

I do not know internals of Lazarus , I do not know  when it is generating
such file names and why .


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-07 Thread Luca Olivetti
El 07/02/15 a les 02:18, Donald Ziesig ha escrit:


 one user on the computer).  I also took the suggestion to use separate
 directories for the windows and linux project files.  This separated the
 object and executable files between the two systems as well.


This shouldn't be necessary, just set

lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)

in the Unit output directory (-FU), under Project-Project
options-Compiler options-Paths

(which should be the default).


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-07 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Luca Olivetti l...@wetron.es wrote:

 El 07/02/15 a les 02:18, Donald Ziesig ha escrit:


  one user on the computer).  I also took the suggestion to use separate
  directories for the windows and linux project files.  This separated the
  object and executable files between the two systems as well.


 This shouldn't be necessary, just set

 lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)

 in the Unit output directory (-FU), under Project-Project
 options-Compiler options-Paths

 (which should be the default).


 Bye
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 Tel. +34 935883004  Fax +34 935883007

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If there is no change :

.lpi files are saved with respect to OS , means on each save , .lpi file of
other OS is broken .

During load of .lpi files , OS difference is not taken into account .


Therefore , .lpi files should be maintained in respective OS directories .


Thank you very much .

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-07 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Donald Ziesig don...@ziesig.org wrote:
 It was suggested that I use svn for file sharing between windows and linux.
 I actually use git for all my source control, but it did not solve the mixed
 case file name issue that was actually causing my problem between the two
 OSes.

I always have all my source files lowercase. In my company (where they
dont use Pascal) they also do it like that, so I guess its a general
problem.

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-07 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 07:40:06 -0800
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]
 If there is no change :
 
 .lpi files are saved with respect to OS , means on each save , .lpi file of
 other OS is broken .
 
 During load of .lpi files , OS difference is not taken into account .
 
 Therefore , .lpi files should be maintained in respective OS directories .

I don't understand. All 352 lpi files of the Lazarus sources
are used cross platform. Why does it not work for yours?

Mattias

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-07 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de
wrote:

 On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 07:40:06 -0800
 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:

 [...]
  If there is no change :
 
  .lpi files are saved with respect to OS , means on each save , .lpi file
 of
  other OS is broken .
 
  During load of .lpi files , OS difference is not taken into account .
 
  Therefore , .lpi files should be maintained in respective OS directories
 .

 I don't understand. All 352 lpi files of the Lazarus sources
 are used cross platform. Why does it not work for yours?

 Mattias

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OS differences are not the .lpi XML file format , but file names of the
project related source file names .


Some years ago , even I have sent a message to Lazarus mailing list about
that issue .

In the same directory , for example , in an NFS directory :

When an .lpi file is loaded in an OS , file names recorded in other OSes
are causing trouble .
During save of an .lpi file , Lazarus is saving the .lpi file in its
current OS structure , by breaking the .lpi for the other OSes .

To prevent such a conflict , it is necessary to introduce into .lpi file
name components a new field :
operating_system = ... /


During loading an .lpi file ALL of the components should be loaded , and
relevant ones to OS should be used ( the other should be kept and any
message should not be issued about them ) , and on save , ALL of the
components should be saved with changes applied only to current OS
components .


Since there is no such a structure , it is necessary to use different
directories and .lpi files for the same project with common source
directories ( with different compiled parts directories ) .


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

I would use svn to synchronize 2 copies, 1 in linux and 1 in windows.

www.assembla.com offers free Repo only svn hosting.


I agree. A (local) subversion server is no big deal, in fact I started 
using svn specifically so that I could quickly get at files from any 
system (Linux, Windows, Solaris) with the version-control aspect being 
secondary.


Subversion is a bit like Perl and Kermit: it's been ported to an 
implausible number of systems. But if you only need it locally and for 
some reason want or need to build it from source, there are far fewer 
dependencies if you drop http: and stick to the svn: protocol.


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS {Solved]

2015-02-06 Thread Donald Ziesig
Thanks to all who responded to my plea for help with multi-platform 
development.


It seems that I was mistaken about the time-stamps causing the problems 
I encountered.  The problems were caused by the fact that Lazarus for 
Linux wants case sensitive file names and the NTFS driver I was using 
was case insensitive.  The erroneous behavior that I was seeing was due 
to capitalization in unit names, not time-stamps.


The solution (as suggested by John Landmesser) was to use ntfs-3g (I put 
it into fstab and added my own uid/gid to avoid permission problems.  
fstab would not have been the proper solution if there were more than 
one user on the computer).  I also took the suggestion to use separate 
directories for the windows and linux project files.  This separated the 
object and executable files between the two systems as well.


I also found a windows driver for ext4 that does not corrupt the ext4 
file system.  It is available from Paragon Software (free for personal 
use, reasonably priced for commercial use).


It was suggested that I use svn for file sharing between windows and 
linux.  I actually use git for all my source control, but it did not 
solve the mixed case file name issue that was actually causing my 
problem between the two OSes.


Again, many thanks for all the great help.

Don Ziesig


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-06 Thread John Landmesser

Am 05.02.2015 um 16:53 schrieb Donald Ziesig:

Hi All!

I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on 
Linux (MInt) and the source files on a Windows NTFS partition.   I 
build and test on windows but my primary work is done on linux so I 
don't stay logged in to windows very long.


The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to 
get confused by windows time stamps (at least that's what the symptoms 
suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE 
frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate 
tab and complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.  It 
sometimes deletes the most recent edit, other times the obsolete file.


I haven't found a windows driver for ext4 that doesn't warn of 
potential corruption of the ext4 file system, otherwise I would 
develop with the source on linux and occasionally build on windows.


One alternative is to keep the master source on linux and copy it all 
to NTFS when I build/test on windows, but that has its own set of issues.


Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform 
source code?  If so, how do you do it?


Thanks,

Don Ziesig
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i do it your way too, no problems!

in fstab ( Debian, sid ) i have these settings

ntfs-3gdefaults,auto,users,locale=de_DE.utf8,exec

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[Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Donald Ziesig

Hi All!

I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on Linux 
(MInt) and the source files on a Windows NTFS partition.   I build and 
test on windows but my primary work is done on linux so I don't stay 
logged in to windows very long.


The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to 
get confused by windows time stamps (at least that's what the symptoms 
suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE 
frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate tab 
and complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.  It 
sometimes deletes the most recent edit, other times the obsolete file.


I haven't found a windows driver for ext4 that doesn't warn of potential 
corruption of the ext4 file system, otherwise I would develop with the 
source on linux and occasionally build on windows.


One alternative is to keep the master source on linux and copy it all to 
NTFS when I build/test on windows, but that has its own set of issues.


Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform 
source code?  If so, how do you do it?


Thanks,

Don Ziesig
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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Sergei Gorelkin

05.02.2015 18:53, Donald Ziesig пишет:

Hi All!

I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on Linux (MInt) 
and the source files
on a Windows NTFS partition.   I build and test on windows but my primary work 
is done on linux so I
don't stay logged in to windows very long.

The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to get 
confused by windows time
stamps (at least that's what the symptoms suggest).  When I save an edited file 
(either code or
form), the IDE frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a 
separate tab and complains
when I edit and save one of the two instances.  It sometimes deletes the most 
recent edit, other
times the obsolete file.

I haven't found a windows driver for ext4 that doesn't warn of potential 
corruption of the ext4 file
system, otherwise I would develop with the source on linux and occasionally 
build on windows.

One alternative is to keep the master source on linux and copy it all to NTFS 
when I build/test on
windows, but that has its own set of issues.

Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform source 
code?  If so, how do
you do it?

I've been developing this way since roughly year 2009, using several versions of 64-bit Ubuntu and 
32-bit Slackware. Never had an issue with timestamps that you describe. Just works out of the box.


Regards,
Sergei


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
I would use svn to synchronize 2 copies, 1 in linux and 1 in windows.

www.assembla.com offers free Repo only svn hosting.

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-02-05 16:14, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
  suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE 
  frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate tab 
  and complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.  
 This means the IDE thinks these are two separate files. For example
 when you mount a case insensitive file system (FAT, NTFS, Samba share)

Just a thought...

I've had a similar issue years back - at least it sounds similar. But
that was due to the fact that I used symlinks to folders under Linux.
The IDE got confused between the true path and the symlink path - always
thinking they are two separate files.

As the others suggested, I would rather setup a (bare) Git repo as a
common share between Linux and Windows.


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Donald Ziesig don...@ziesig.org wrote:

 Hi All!

 I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on Linux
 (MInt) and the source files on a Windows NTFS partition.   I build and test
 on windows but my primary work is done on linux so I don't stay logged in
 to windows very long.

 The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to get
 confused by windows time stamps (at least that's what the symptoms
 suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE
 frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate tab and
 complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.  It sometimes
 deletes the most recent edit, other times the obsolete file.

 I haven't found a windows driver for ext4 that doesn't warn of potential
 corruption of the ext4 file system, otherwise I would develop with the
 source on linux and occasionally build on windows.

 One alternative is to keep the master source on linux and copy it all to
 NTFS when I build/test on windows, but that has its own set of issues.

 Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform
 source code?  If so, how do you do it?

 Thanks,

 Don Ziesig
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Create two different directories :

One for Windows executable having a  *.lpr , *.lpi ,
other for Linux executable having a  *.lpr , *.lpi ( at the beginning copy
of another ( with a minimum of sources )) ,

and a third directory containing sources .

In Windows , use Windows related directory
in Linux , use Linux related directory , for your *.lpr , *.lpi files in
their own directories .


In that way , by using a common source directory , you may generate
executables which compilations do not interfere with each other .

In your common sources , it may be necessary to insert $ifdef statements to
allow parts with respect to operating systems .


Thank you very much .


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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:53:40 -0500
Donald Ziesig don...@ziesig.org wrote:

 Hi All!
 
 I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on Linux 
 (MInt) and the source files on a Windows NTFS partition.   I build and 
 test on windows but my primary work is done on linux so I don't stay 
 logged in to windows very long.
 
 The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to 
 get confused by windows time stamps (at least that's what the symptoms 
 suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE 
 frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate tab 
 and complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.  

This means the IDE thinks these are two separate files. For example
when you mount a case insensitive file system (FAT, NTFS, Samba share)
under Linux, the IDE does not know and assumes it is case sensitive.
For the Linux IDE the file 'a.pas' and 'A.pas' are two different
files.
Note: Some functions of IDE uses heuristics to figure out such cases,
but not all.


 It sometimes deletes the most recent edit, other times the obsolete file.
 
 I haven't found a windows driver for ext4 that doesn't warn of potential 
 corruption of the ext4 file system, otherwise I would develop with the 
 source on linux and occasionally build on windows.
 
 One alternative is to keep the master source on linux and copy it all to 
 NTFS when I build/test on windows, but that has its own set of issues.
 
 Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform 
 source code?  If so, how do you do it?

I strongly recommend to use a version control system like svn, git, etc.
Not only will it handle OS differences (e.g. line endings, access
rights), it gives you backups and diffs.

If you want to use a shared filesystem, then make all file names and
uses sections lower case.

Mattias

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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 05.02.2015 17:14 schrieb Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de:

 On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:53:40 -0500
 Donald Ziesig don...@ziesig.org wrote:

  Hi All!
 
  I have been trying to develop a multi-platform app with the IDE on Linux
  (MInt) and the source files on a Windows NTFS partition.   I build and
  test on windows but my primary work is done on linux so I don't stay
  logged in to windows very long.
 
  The problem I am having is that the Linux version of the IDE seems to
  get confused by windows time stamps (at least that's what the symptoms
  suggest).  When I save an edited file (either code or form), the IDE
  frequently (but not always) opens a copy of that file in a separate tab
  and complains when I edit and save one of the two instances.

 This means the IDE thinks these are two separate files. For example
 when you mount a case insensitive file system (FAT, NTFS, Samba share)
 under Linux, the IDE does not know and assumes it is case sensitive.
 For the Linux IDE the file 'a.pas' and 'A.pas' are two different
 files.
 Note: Some functions of IDE uses heuristics to figure out such cases,
 but not all.


One could check whether the distro mounts NTFS as case sensitive or not. By
default at least ntfs-3g mounts it as case sensitive. Maybe the thread
starter is using the in-kernel driver, I don't know what that one does.
Further info about ntfs-3g's options: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g

Regards,
Sven
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Re: [Lazarus] Developing on Linux with files on Windows NTFS

2015-02-05 Thread Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
 Has anyone had any success in using common storage for multi-platform source
 code?  If so, how do you do it?

 Thanks,

 Don Ziesig

I use a real machine with Linux and a virtual machine with Windows. I
boot to a real Windows only when I have to test custom USB hardware. A
years ago I use a virtual machine with SVN on Linux. The virtual
machine files were hosted on a NTFS partition visible from a real
Linux with Virtualbox and a real Windows with Virtualbox. That way it
was posible to access the source code from both Linux and Windows.

Gustavo

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