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Greets. Are there any major issues WRT developing Linux apps using Cygwin? I will have access to a real Linux box for testing purposes, but I'd still like to use my Windows machine for day-to-day development. Has anyone here much experience with such a setup?
For possible issues with using Cygwin
Cygwin FAQ
But why not consider using either VmWare player or VirtualBox to install a REAL Linux inside a virtual machine on your windows OS?
Thanks. Yes, that would be ideal but probably unworkable due to the fact that I've got sources that need to be available for both systems. Syncing everything would just be too much trouble, I think. Then again, I guess I could compile using Cygwin, then somehow copy the binaries over to VmWare to test the code. That should work, right?
That wouldn't work, because a Cygwin binary is a Windows program. (EDIT: I guess you could run it in Wine, but that would be crazy)Quote:
Originally Posted by gardhr
Cygwin is really just a POSIX layer for Windows. If your program builds and works using Cygwin on Windows, chances are it will work when built and run on Linux, but you need to build it using a Linux system.
At home I run various Linuxes in VirtualBox (free) and use vboxsf to share files between Windows and the Linux VMs. It isn't hard to set it up.
Like brewbuck says, it couldn't be any simpler.
Just make your code directory shareable in VirtualBox and you can edit to your hearts content in either OS and compile in either OS as well.
> At home I run various Linuxes in VirtualBox (free) and use vboxsf to share files between Windows and the Linux VMs.
It works the other way too :)
Linux host, sharing a directory visible to windows running in a VM.
Perfect! I won't even bother with Cygwin then. I've already installed VirtualBox and now downloading the Ubuntu ISO. Can't wait to try it out!
Works great. I can switch between development environments without any problems whatsoever. Still haven't figured out how to automatically mount the share folder, though - no biggie, a simple bash script will do the trick for now. Thanks for the advice, fellas.
P.S. - Posted this from Ubuntu, btw! How cool is that? :cool: