On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Beman Dawes
I'm primarily a Windows developer, but like to be able to test locally on both Windows and Linux so I don't have to wait for Boost's regression tests to cycle. For several years I've done that on a Linux virtual machine. I just rebuilt my virtual machine and kept a log so I could share how it is done.
Such a virtual machine is free and is easy enough that most Boost library maintainers who use Windows could do the setup in an afternoon, most of which is just downloading files, and can be overlapped with other work.
See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartTestingLinuxOnWindows
Corrections or other comments appreciated.
Hopefully this won't cause a Linux distribution flame war, but I run Fedora Linux in VirtualBox mainly because it tends to be one of the first distributions to release the latest g++/clang++ compilers. After installing the distribution, installing vbox additions on Fedora (and maybe other distributions) requires you: - Use the VirtualBox Manager app storage settings to "insert" VBoxGuestAdditions.iso into the CD/DVD-ROM drive - Use the Linux file manager to open the CD/DVD-ROM drive containing the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso and click "Run Software". Recommend changing: sudo mv b2 /usr/bin to sudo mv b2 /usr/local/bin Michael
Enjoy!
--Beman
PS: The process would work in the other direction too, but it would require a Windows license (I.E. not free) and I don't have experience going in that direction so can't write about it.
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