hello all i'm developing cross-platform system.
I know that we have make it so. and some others like sln2mak.
however they do not support Visual Studio 2012.
does anyone know if something like this exists for VS2012 project files?
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Does any know if there are any efforts for cmake to generate a Visual Studio Code project (not to be confused with Visual Studio)? IE
cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles"
not for eclipse, but for Visual Studio Code? This would be awesome for linux projects.
As already mentioned, VS Code has the vscode-cmake-tools extension to integrate with CMake projects.
See here for documentation on what features it has to offer. You will see that building and debugging within the IDE are supported.
The design of VS Code is very much centered around being simple and extensible, whereas Visual Studio is more of a monolith and includes its own build system for C++. VS Code is not monolithic like that.
I have got some open source projects which I want to have a try. But I want to use Eclipse if the project was made using eclipse; otherwise I would like to use Android Studio.
So how can I know by viewing the source code about the IDE used for the development of a particular project? Is there any metadata in any file which stores the IDE information?
I believe that Android Studio sometimes includes gradle related files. That's how I would check.
So Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 Express for desktop apps. That's great, but how does one create an installer for open source apps that are built in Visual Studio Express? There are no installer templates available by default, and they have disabled browsing the online gallery. Sure, I could purchase something like InstallShield, but that kind of defeats the purpose of an open source application if you ask me. Any suggestions?
You can use the open source NSIS or WiX tools to create fairly nice installers.
Since both should work without the Visual Studio integration that Express won't give you, they should both be usable (even if not quite as nicely) without problems.
I would use Inno Setup, which is a little easier to learn than most other setup programs.
I have a link here:
http://www.jrsoftware.org/ishelp/
Disclaimer: I am a total beginner to Visual Basic but code a bit in python and Drupal
I need to compile this C++ app (http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=227253). I succesfully cloned from git, but how do I compile it (get the .exe) in Visual Basic 2008 or 2010 Express?
I have tried this:
1. Open Visual Basic 2008 Express, File, New, Windows Form Application (naive assumption, which should I choose?)
2. Dragged the contents of the git clone into the Solution Explorer Window (which Adds files)
3. Click Build menu
After that I'm lost. Any help is appreciated! This project uses cmake if that helps.
You need Visual C++, not Visual Basic. They are separate languages.
You cannot compile a C++ program in Visual Basic 2008 Express.
You must download Visual C++. Or purchase Visual Studio 2010 Pro (which includes all of VB, C++, C# and the web tools).
If you've got the bandwidth, I'd encourage you to get this .iso:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express-iso
If you're interested in the "bleeding edge", MSVS 2011 beta is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads
Otherwise, if you just want to compile some C+ code on a Microsoft Visual Studio compiler, get this:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express
I am just starting to use Wix and would like to use heat to extract the outputs from my Visual C++ projects to source Wix files. This seems to work great for my C# projects, however, whenever I run heat on a C++ project I get an error:
heat project MyProject.vcproj -pog:Binaries -cg MyGroup -nologo -out MySource.wxs
heat.exe : error HEAT5307 : Build failed.
Is this supposed to work or am I doing something wrong? Thanks
Not in Visual Studio 2008 and earlier. C++ projects are not really MSbuild projects (just a shells around vcbuild.exe or something like that) so there is no introspection into those projects. It's quite sad.
Rumor has it that the VC++ team is fixing this in Visual Studio 2010 so hopefully things will start working there.