最简单的方法是“移植”Visual Studio C ++项目以在Linux上编译？

Question

Have been developing a Visual Studio (2012) C++ project and wondered what would be the most convenient way of being able to copy it over to Linux so that I could re-compile the whole project there? Assume the C++ is platform-independent.

Would it be a case of copying all the .h and .cpp files manually in to one folder, copy that folder to Linux and then somehow creating a script (makefile?) which controls how the files are compiled? I'm not too sure if a makefile is what I require- but any mechanism so that I can compile the whole project from one command on the terminal?

Answer 1

For the physical part, the easiest solution is to just grab the sources from your Version Control System. That will take care of the \\r\\n -> \\n translation in your .cpp and .h files.

On the linux side, pretty much any build tool is superior to raw make . make is really the assembly language of build systems; your tool might produce a makefile as an intermediary but don't try to maintain that.

Answer 2

Yes, copy the files (or as @MSalters says - checkout a fresh copy) then construct an alternative .vcxproj for the Linux build tools. Note that the Visual Studio project file is really just a very fancy type of makefile.

A makefile at its simplest is just a list of files (or file types even) and a command for running on them. Once you have that written up, building is as simple as running MSBuild against a .sln file.

So you need to decide which build system to use on Linux - there's CMake which is a makefile-generator, and several other systems available.

Someone has made a tool that parses the VS project file and can generate a makefile from it, but it doesn't support VS2012 (you can fix this though, contribute)