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[JohannesMunk]

At least for the linux part I would suggest www.virtualbox instead of dualbooting. You can download fully configured linux machines, so that you don't even have to install it yourself.

I just googled "virtualbox MacOSX" and came up with this forum: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2076 . It may be a starting point. Although the legal aspects have to be thoroughly considered!

To get back to the question: You would then install QtCreator on those platforms and compile your projects natively. So you avoid the problem of cross-compiling.

Johannes

[ctote]

Thanks for the replies everyone -- so I understand now that I cannot cross-compile my projects. However, is there a way to easily transfer a project written in Windows to Linux (e.g., write the project in Windows, transfer, and compile the same project in Linux)?

Thanks again for the support

[nish]

there is no easy way. there is only one way. just copy your whole source dir to linux machine and compile. If you dont have windows specific code like hardcoded paths ("C:\Windows", type) and win32 api calls then you are done.

[ctote]

Ok - we tried this but got an error. I'll post the error message next time I'm at the workstation. Thanks

[schnitzel]

assuming you took some care to use portable code, i.e. use Qt API everywhere to hide platform specific code or #ifdef, the process is simple.
An example to copy a project from windows to linux:
1) delete debug/release folders
2) delete Makefile, Makefile.Debug, Makefile.Release
3) delete object_script*.*
4) delete <project>.pro.user
5) copy the entire folder
6) open the <project>.pro file with Qt Creator on linux
7) build all

note: if you link any 3rd party libs, then you need to specify the differences in your .pro file like so (example):
unix:LIBS += -l/location/of/lib/linux/libwhatever.a
win32:LIBS += c:/location/of/lib/win/libwhatever.a