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

[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 Window's VM then you don't want to do
> that often.

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 artifacts). I'm using this setup since forever ...

Just saying,

Kai