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Asked: 2026-05-15T23:32:18+00:00

Suppose I have a server that runs on Linux on which I would like

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Suppose I have a server that runs on Linux on which I would like to develop software (mainly OCaml, C/C++ and Java).

Is there a way to “remote develop” these things? I mean an IDE that allows me to modify files remotely (they are then uploaded when modified and saved) and to compile through SSH (basically invoking make or omake).

I was looking for something that makes this process transparent to the developer, without caring of doing things by hand. I’m used to use Eclipse so I wonder if a plugin to achieve this exists or if are there other choices?

Mind that it may happen that the local machine it not able to build software I intend to (for example for OCaml) so it should rely just on remote connection.

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think your answer is IDE-centric.

    KDE’s ioslaves support access over both SFTP and SSH (using fish, which uses a Perl script uploaded to the remote machine). I believe Gnome also has a virtual file system (gvfs) which supports remote filesystem access.

    My recommendation, therefore, is to choose an IDE which supports a virtual filesystem that can operate over SSH/SFTP and allows you to specify the build command. You would then only need to specify the build command which would get its output from the remote make command (for example, vim has a makeprg option which can be set to any arbitrary command).

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