Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-29 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
Thank you all for your valuable suggestions. I think shadow-build is going to be a life-saver! :) One more question, for testing on Windows, is mandatory to test builds with MinGW (32 and 64 bit) and Visual Studio? Thanks, -mandeep On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Thiago Macieira

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On domingo, 29 de setembro de 2013 19:04:42, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: One more question, for testing on Windows, is mandatory to test builds with MinGW (32 and 64 bit) and Visual Studio? All code must compile with MinGW 32-bit and Visual Studio for 32- and 64-bit (support for MinGW for 64-bit is

[Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
Hi All, I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user. I've recently made some changes for a bug report and wanted to test them on Windows as well. For that I've installed Windows (I've installed 7, do I need to test on other versions as well?) inside VirtualBox. Now I was thinking what was the easiest way to get

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Mitch Curtis
On 09/27/2013 01:57 PM, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: Hi All, I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user. I've recently made some changes for a bug report and wanted to test them on Windows as well. For that I've installed Windows (I've installed 7, do I need to test on other versions as well?) inside VirtualBox.

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
27.09.2013, 15:58, Mandeep Sandhu mandeepsandhu@gmail.com: Hi All, I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user. I've recently made some changes for a bug report and wanted to test them on Windows as well. For that I've installed Windows (I've installed 7, do I need to test on other versions as well?)

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Koehne Kai
-Original Message- [...] If by share with the VM you mean via a shared folder, I wouldn't recommend it, Qt uses in-tree builds so you'd be forever having to git clean -dfx and rebuild from scratch every time you switched OS's, and believe me given how slow Git and Qt is building in a

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Ray Donnelly
My usual approach for testing before exposing to the world is to use git format-patch -1 Then patch -p1 0001-Some-commit-message.patch I use Dropbox to share patch files. On Sep 28, 2013 12:14 AM, Koehne Kai kai.koe...@digia.com wrote: -Original Message- [...] If by share with

Re: [Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

2013-09-27 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2013 15:13:58, Koehne Kai wrote: Qt builds just fine in a shadow build setup. The only caveats are that it should be on the same file system level than the source directory, and that your source directory should be really clean (e.g. not containing any build