While playing with Vowpal Wabbit I have struggled many times with impossibility to debug VW sources in IDE and check how exactly it works. As I've recently finally switched to Kubuntu I don't want to launch Win every time I'm facing small problems. And unfortunately VWs sources equipped with Visual Studio project files which doesn't support *nix platforms.
Finally I've forced myself to try building VW on Linux as Qt project with QtCeator IDE. Surprisingly it was very easy to do in just a few steps:
Finally I've forced myself to try building VW on Linux as Qt project with QtCeator IDE. Surprisingly it was very easy to do in just a few steps:
