I dont’t see a decent solution for this problem. The include path problem is hardly to solve (besides entirely mounting the remote box and adding the include paths from there). Regardless of which method you use to load the file to be edited, the includes etc. are always missing.

If your development environments are not too different, I would suggest to develop locally and use a source code management system like git or mercurial (maybe subversion) to sync your codebase. Being platform independent, this usually works quite well with Qt projects. You will have to update the code on the remote machin an build from the command line.

I believe the only solution to get a good development environment is to use x forwarding, but if your link is not fast enough it will not be usable. So my second choice would be to mount the remote filesystem and the include/library path so to create a kind of sendbox where I can work locally having all the files remotely. Another possibility is to setup a virtual machine that is configured as the remote target machine and finally the last solution is to use a tool for filesystem sync (DVCS or VCS or even an ad-hoc script) and compile on the remote machine via terminal emulation. It would not be hard after all, thanks to (q)make, but it will become more difficult to debug.

Did you try NoMachine NX? I found it performed very well for me in the past for x forwarding, even on an only half-decent network connection.

Why forward X when he can start vnc server, even if the machine doesn’t run in graphical mode. Using vnc server and accessing via vnc viewer would allow him to reconnect and continue working even if the connection drops.

Other thing could be to start a version/revision control system on the server and update it with the needed data, then compile via the ssh link he has. Qt Creator already has integration with Bazaar, Mercurial and Git, so I think that would be the best solution in this case.

NX can do those tricks as well, and is generally faster than VNC.

hm, okay, I can’t say I used NX lately, so could be good as well, but he did say his connection to that computer is really slow. I guess both vnc and nx wouldn’t be good choice in that case.

Hi all,

Thanks for the advice. The link is slow but the bigger issue is latency and jitter, so remote desktop anything is not going to work.

I see that NetBeans has some capability for remote c/c++ development via SSH. Somehow it picks up include paths, etc via the remote shell connection.

See: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/remotedev-tutorial.html

NetBeans even has rudimentary Qt support, but I’d much rather use Qt Creator.

Is this kind of setup possible with Qt Creator? If not, is it on the feature map? (Seems like it’d be helpful for developing Mobile apps with real HW too.)

Thank you

Helo,

Have you made any progress? I am trying to do the same thing but I am slowly loosing the will. Atm I have tried lunching gdbserver process on my centos 6 remote server and tried connecting via QtCreator remote debugging tool on my local Ubuntu development machine. Debugger starts but it soon fails saying no executable given. So I mounted folder containing binary I wish to debug from remote server and finally got error about miss matching libs. From this point on I’m lost.

I also tried remote development from eclipse, established eclipse connection using ssh and creating remote C/C++ project which even builds if I create makefile by my own but eclipse doesn’t recognizes binary so I can’t even run/debug it using eclipse (works via terminal). Tried given binary parsers without success. I also think this is the only way this thing will work since it uses remote compiler and library’s.

I am thinking of creating virtual machine with same setup on my centos 6 remote machine and remote debugging from it, but I’m afraid even then I will get some kind of lib version miss matches since server doesn’t have X installed.

Tomorrow I will carefully read all the replays and try them out.

Hi krizajb,

Nope. Never got this to work.

I wish I could.

What error message do you get ?

Hi All,

Okay. I have to say, I tested NX, and I noticed that it used a few Mbps vs. Windows RDP which used only a couple hundred kbps. Any tricks to get NX to be smarter/more efficient?

Thanks

There is also sshfs which can mount directories from a remote machine via SSH. That could get access to the sources. Not sure how the filesystem will impact performance.