Red Red Wine pt. II

Reboots are boring. Full OS virtualization is space consuming on my laptop. But creating snapshots of the SVN with fresh features is really good for feedback. I think so.

Well, from today I can serve my Qt apps from Wine/Linux environment. It was easy. Qt4 installer, MinGW installer, Cmake installer — all installed fine and everything is working without any issue. wineconsole --backend=user cmd is helpfull too.

So from today there is no need for rebooting, multiple SVN working directories. And the best point at all — today’s exe binaries for Windows are used by real XP/Vista people. With no reboot! (Did I said it before?)

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Red red wine…

It’s quite interesting how are Qt apps really multiplatform. I’ve tested some night-builds of Sqliteman in Vista and XP. And the only thing I can say is that rebooting is boring (I know, I know — virtualization. But there are some serious reasons I cannot use it extensively on my office laptop).

OK, back to the topic.

I said myself: “what could happen when I run it in Wine?”

It runs, it works and it doesn’t crash. It counts.

Disclaimer: running my apps under wine is not required. You can use its native-built equivalents. You know, portable writting is easy. Sometimes.

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