On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: >> that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in purchasing >> Visual Studio. > > Just a point of interest: "Visual Studio" doesn't use Makefiles; Visual C++ > can > import Makefile projects if you ask it to, but it has its own project file > format. If you're seeing actual make files (and not, say, a .sln file or > .cproj > file) then you don't need Studio, just an nmake-compatible version of make. > > If you do have project and solution files from Visual Studio, they are just > MSBuild projects (think "ant for Windows"). I'm pretty sure there are > open-source variants of MSBuild, possibly in the Mono project? > > And of course, Visual C++ Express is free, though you'd need to find somewhere > to set it up.
Just a note: I used to do all of my programming in Visual Studio. I stopped when I needed to do things that VS wouldn't let me do, and also because I discovered GNU/Linux. As for the types of files I've seen, I have seen both VS Solution/Project files, and nmake files. Most of the time, I just use the configure script with x86_64-w64-mingw32 as my host, and it works fine. Do you, by chance, know where I can find an nmake-compatible version of make? Also, do you have a link for Visual C++ Express? I like to do most programming in C/C++ anyway (though this is OT). Thanks for your reply, it was enlightening... When I did most of my programming, portability was not an issue - now it is virtually a must. Chris --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 120117-0, 01/17/2012 Tested on: 1/17/2012 9:26:56 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com
