Error source file is not valid UTF-8 when sharing project code from Ubuntu host to macOS guest

Question

I have a Ubuntu host and a vmware macOS guest. When I share a project code from Ubuntu, the code cannot be built in macOS because of error source file is not valid UTF-8. We can use any example of Qt/QML to reproduce this error. I think this is because of "end of line", "end of file" differents. Can you tell me if there are any option/flag in qmake that tell qmake or clang knows about this? Thanks!

Addition info: I found the reason but not found the solution. This is because of vmware shared folders in macosx guest is under /Volumes/VMware Shared Folders. I must copy the source to another path to build success. I tried to create a symlink but this cannot be built too. I don't want to copy/paste code each time I pull/commit. It's so inconvenient. Can you give me some hints? Thank you very much!
Addition info: I cannot read/write those vmware shared folder directly.
Some more info: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/175917.
Addition info: Now I can read/write by change both setting in host and guest for the sharing folder. But the issue is still here. I think this is because of the space in the name /Volumes/VMware Shared Folders. How can I change this default shared name or mount this to my folder?
Additon info: Tried this but still failed: sudo mount -t vmhgfs ".host:/VMware Shared Folders" /Users/username/sharefolder

Answer 1

I faced the same problem today. Finally I give up sharing folder over VMware, and turn to sshfs, which is hosted by WSL in the host windows system， everything works.

btw, install sshfs on OSX：

brew cask install osxfuse
brew install sshfs
sudo chown ${whoami}  /usr/local/share/man/man1 
brew link sshfs