Re: [Texmacs-dev] virtualbox images?

[Gubinelli Massimiliano]

Hi all,
 
On 12 Feb 2013, at 22:45, Michael Lachmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 12 February 2013 12:17, Miguel de Benito Delgado
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I use Parallels, which I find considerably superior to VirtualBox, under 
>> MacOS at least. It's more stable, integrates perfectly with the system, has 
>> "coherence" mode which is very handy, and many other things which just make 
>> it better. It's not free, though.
>> 
> 

Virtualbox works fine for me (and it is free). I use mainly to test Ubuntu and 
sometimes Windows. For Windows you can set up quite easily a cross-dev 
environment in Linux or Mac using MXE (http://mxe.cc)

On the Mac I compile myself all the library needed (from gmp to qt) without 
relying in MacPort or similar. You find the necessary material in 
misc/tm-devel-mac (is based on the makefiles for MXE). 


> If we're already talking about virtual images.
> 
> I can mount my TeXmacs svn directory from linux, or use it from OSX.
> For now, to build the version for the respective platform, I do a full
> switch... make clean; configure, make; make install
> It would be nice if I could switch more easily between platforms. I
> could have two separate source trees, but then it wouldn't be as easy
> to make sure they are synced.
> 
> It is somehow possible to compile for two different platforms on the
> same source tree?

the makefile does not support out-of-place builds. Some times ago I wrote an 
incomplete patch to support this style of compilation but it is non-trivial to 
suppport correctly the make process for the plugins: a better separation of the 
platform dependent files and the sources would be needed. So the patch remained 
in the limbo. I still have it on some of my machines but I'm not sure it is up 
to date. Now I just check out different trees or use a local git repository as 
Miguel suggested. 

I agree that for development a better out-of-place build support would be 
needed.  


best
max


ps: if you are interested I attach it to the mail but I didn't applied it since 
2 years or so some maybe it requires some tweaking.

out-of-place.patch
Description: Binary data

> Probably not.. I guess one would have to keep the configure results
> separate, all objects and all binaries.
> But maybe...
> so, is it possible?


> Thanks!
> Michael
> 
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