Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio

[pgav]

Greetings, I'm working on a project that needs to easily port between Windows and Linux platforms. As such, we've decided on using multiple development platforms to work with the code (much of which is already written). (For those interested, we're using Eclipse with GNU tools for Linux testing, and Visual Studio for Windows testing). The question is the following: How do I force Visual Studio to read the Makefiles when building the project? I know that Visual Studio has the ability to work with Makefiles, however, I'm not able to make it work with already written code. Anyone have to do this before? Thanks.

Patrick

[David Crow]

pgav wrote:

I know that Visual Studio has the ability to work with Makefiles, however, I'm not able to make it work...

Are you using nmake.exe?

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[pgav]

I know of nmake.exe... but where do I find it/use it?

Patrick

-- modified at 11:19 Monday 24th July, 2006

[David Crow]

It's in the \vc98\bin folder.

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[Mike Dimmick]

Note that nmake and GNU make syntax are often not compatible, so you might have to either download and use GNU make on Windows, or bite the bullet and maintain both a GNU-compatible makefile and a Visual Studio project file.

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