New to Visual studio 2003/2005/2008

redhat_newbie

Dear all,

Compiling c programs

gcc -Wall -o myfile myfile.c (GCC linux and via Cygwin on windows)
cl myfile.c (Microsoft Visual C++ command-line compiler)
bcc32 myfile.c (Borland C/C++ compiler, Microsoft Windows)

How about make or gmake in Windows ? I mean to ask how to make in Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008?

for eg: gcc -o myfile myfile.c yields myfile which can be run via commandline

in the same way, i need to make .exe file using Visual Studio.

confused: I have make file which links objs, libraries and other dependences and makes a linux binary/osx binary (wrt Mac OSX). I want to make a windows executable for the C application I have.

Thanks for your pointers here.

Ginger

Visual Studio is mainly for the .NET languages but you can use the compiler via the command line if you need to

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/610ecb4h.aspx

I have very little experience with C++.NET(Managed C++) or even compiling plain C/C++ in Visual Studio.. Actually you can by changing the project properties to Compile as C/C++

redhat_newbie

Even I can opt to go for for Visual Studio 6. Are there any IDE's for compiling C programs for Windows. Would Borland / Eclipse would solve this ?

Can anyone give me a short tutorial or link to it ? Or else let me know how to run Make or is there any equivalent of Make for Windows ?

Ginger

Plenty .. VS will do it, Borland will do it, possibly even gcc under cgywin (dunno what it will do!)

Try http://www.bloodshed.net/
Or http://www.mingw.org/

ressem

There is nmake included in visual studio for C++.

A sample make file is provided at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6bt6xe7(VS.80).aspx


If you are interested in c# and the like, msbuild from the .net sdk is the de-facto recommendation. Or nant if you have a complicated build.

redhat_newbie

Thanks for the link and info Ressen.
Application is based on C.

Cheers to everyone.