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

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 wrote: > On

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

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" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > [...] > > If by share with the VM you mea

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 buildi

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

2013-09-27 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
27.09.2013, 15:58, "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.

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

2013-09-27 Thread John Layt
On 27 September 2013 15:37, Mitch Curtis wrote: > 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

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 Virtual

[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 m