由于链接的前缀而无法生成Visual Studio 2017 Linux Makefile项目

Question

I have a Linux project witch I developed in vim and now I'd like to go on developing it in Visual Studio with IntelliSense etc.

It's a Makefile project so I need to build it on the Linux machine.

I already created the project and created the connection and it works but I can't build because I am building with a prefix script so I open a new interactive shell with something like this

set -i

. "/tools/dist/xxxx-2010.0"/etc/profile

I don't think that visual studio can handle such thing.

Is there a way to do it?

I am calling my startprefix script with an alias then it starts the interactive shell and then I enter my make commands for usual but in visual studio it won't build it stops at t he very beginning after executing the first command (which is the startprefix alias)

And another thing is that I don't see any project files in my solution I unloaded and loaded the project but it won't get me the source files. Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

The Visual Studio C++ for Linux add-in supports MSBuild, makefile and CMake projects. If you already have the makefile then create a new Linux makefile project in VS, add in the source files and hit F5 to build.

Trying to read between the lines of your question:

• C++ for Linux is optional and must be installed thru the VS installer.
• Everything, ie editing, building, debugging, is run in VS from the
  Windows host.
• The source resides on the Windows host (although you can do things with shared drives if needed).
• The Linux remote is just that, remote.
• You might need to interact with the Linux remote to debug an
  X-Windows based GUI application but console applications can be
  debugged entirely on the Windows host.

If you have other commands that you need to run before and/or after the makefile then you can set these up in the VS project settings. Likewise and parameters you need to pass to make .