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

Subject: Re: [geometry] Regression in the Variant support for distance()
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-10 12:29:47

Hi Bruno, Adam,

Adam Wulkiewicz wrote On 10-6-2014 11:53:
> 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. 

MinGW is of course also possible. And probably more easy.

My setup: I'm using Windows, and installed VirtualBox. Within VirtualBox 
I'm using Ubuntu (I'm still at 12), which you can install in Virtual Box 
downloading an ISO file, adding (in VB) a new virtual machine, set the 
properties, boot, and configure.

OK - after sending this I realized already that "really easy" was quite 
exaggerated. However there are many tutorials on the web (e.g. 
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox which I had bookmarked and 
used at that time ). After everything is installed, and you have the 
complete Ubuntu, and after you have git/boost there, everything works 
really convenient ;-).

I don't use VB shared folders (as far as I know), I just have complete 
Ubuntu there which supports symlinks.

Regards, Barend