Good distributed compilation system?

[Joachim Backes]

On 08/30/2011 03:42 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 04:52 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> could anyone recommend a distributed compilation system that runs both
>> on *nix and Windows machines? I mostly do the actual coding under Linux,
>> but have network access to a very powerful box running Windows 7 (I am
>> not allowed to change the OS) which I would like to compile on.
>
> I see suggestions about cygwin.
> It is probably too slow for short life processes such as gcc.

But if the op only wants to have the same environment for both linux and 
windows, I think Cygwin should be the best solution, especially if his 
Win machine is fast (as he remarks).

>
> I would create a Linux VM on Windows and use Linux tool inside it.
>
> If the box is powerful, you have HW-assisted virtualization, so
> just pick a good VM manager (don't know which is better at the moment,
> Vmware, VirtualBox, ...) and create one VM, or more than one if you have
> a lot of cores and memory.
>


-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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