Cross-platform compiling using Visual Studio 2008

Question

Hi,

Given: - C++ code base with more than 500K LOC - The same base code used for Windows (Visual Studio 9 2008) and Linux (RHEL)

Most of the frequent task during development is of course edit/compile/fix (therefore we like programming :)). Most of our developers are with Visual Studio background only and IMHO its pretty powerfully. Is there a way to edit/compile code on Linux remotly from VS?

Is there any way to compile on Linux machine remotely from within VS? I found link text and link text but: - Visual Studio 9 2008 doesn't support nmake, while I need to add command line for at least build/rebuild and clean. I found that I can add one command as a pre-build event or as external tool (Menu->Tools->...). But it only 1 command, while I need 3 commands

Maybe is there some other way?

Thanks Dima

Answer 1

What happens if you put the three commands in a bat file and invoked the batch file as a one pre-build event command?, does this fix your issue

Answer 2

If you can "only add one command", then of the solution should be wrapping the sequence of commands that you want to run into a .bat file. I haven't tried doing this from Visual Studio, but I would be really surprised if it didn't work.

Here is an article about cross-compiling Linux code, using gcc, for Linux in a Windows-hosted environment.