[Lazarus] Lazarus SVN on linux and virtual box WinXP

[Reenen Laurie]

Would you think it's possible to run (and compile) lazarus on both linux and
windows from the same shared drive?  (Because yes, Virtual Box has it).

Regards,
-Reenen


On 2/12/09, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2009/2/11 Reenen Laurie <rlaurie at gmail.com>:
> > A while ago I installed Virtual box and WinXP.  I want to know if it's
> > possible for me to keep my Virtual box's Lazarus updated from the SVN
> > updates I do via linux?
>
> Under VMWare you can setup "shared folders" between the host and the
> vm sessions. I believe VirtualBox also has that feature. I do this for
> all our projects and frameworks (tiOPF, fpGUI etc) and can't imagine
> that it wouldn't be possible with Lazarus.
>
> At the moment I don't share Lazarus source, but rather export the host
> one (svn export /temp/lazarus) so that the VM session has it's own
> copy. That way I can move the VM session between machines and still
> start up Lazarus.
> The other reason I use a exported version of Lazarus, is because
> SubVersion waists a lot of disk space (double copies of everything in
> the hidden .svn directories) and I try and limit the disk space in the
> VM sessions. (another reason to use Git instead).
>
>
> Regards,
> - Graeme -
>
>
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