Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] Regression in the Variant support for distance()

Subject: Re: [geometry] Regression in the Variant support for distance()
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-10 05:53:37

Bruno Lalande wrote:
> Hi Barend,
>
> Regarding "VirtualBox/gcc is really easy to install on Windows 
> machines", can you share which setup you used to achieve that? I'm 
> currently setting this up and I don't find it this easy, especially 
> with the new modular Boost. The goal is to have Boost sources on my 
> local machine and then several VMs that run the tests against that 
> code. My first attempt was to use the shared folder feature embedded 
> into VirtualBox - it was a failure, as VB shared folders don't support 
> symlinks, which are vital with modular Boost. I'm now trying using 
> rsync, seems to work better. But all in all I wouldn't say this is all 
> "easy" at all so I was curious whether you found something more 
> straightforward to achieve this.

If that matters, I'm using MinGW + GitBASH.

Regards,
Adam