Remotely Programming

Asked 2009-03-02T07:36:06.570

I'm doing my development work on my Windows machine, but my compiling on a remote Linux machine. What I currently do is start an X server on Windows, ssh into the Linux machine, then do the development remotely.

What I'd like to do is edit my source on the Windows machine, and have it automatically copy files over to the Linux system when I save. I'd also like for my built-in compilation commands to perform a build on the remote system.

If it makes a difference, the source is all in C, using GCC. In descending order of preference, I have Emacs, Vi, and Netbeans on my desktop, and am willing to install another IDE for a last resort.

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You could try sharing a disk between your Linux and Windows machines using Samba or something like that. Then you could edit on your local machines and the files would be visible immediately on the remote machine since the drive would be visible to both.

Where I work we have all files on NFS that is accessible from all Linux machines and Windows machines. I don't know how hard it is to set that up since I work in a large corporation and IT is abstracted away from me, but simple disk sharing should be pretty straightforward.

answered 2009-03-02T07:52:55.017

One solution might be to have some sort of polling app that checks the timestamp on the files to see if they have changed. If they have then get it to save and then compile. Kinda hackish this way but it would be workable.

answered 2009-03-02T07:42:28.723

Remotely Programming

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