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

Mandeep Sandhu mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 15:34:42 CEST 2013


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
<thiago.macieira at intel.com>wrote:

> 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
> > artifacts). I'm using this setup since forever ...
>
> Same here, even on Windows.
>
> By "same level", Kai means that you should have the same number of slashes
> in
> the path of the source and in the path of the build. A good solution is to
> keep the source and the build side by side.
>
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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