Ubuntu on Windows

Re:Ubuntu on Windows by chris_wot on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:59PM (#11392954)

It means I need to install Visual Studio. Right now I'm only developing on Mac OS X and Linux. On top of this, every time Microsoft updates Visual Studio, things like firebird tend to break :(

I'd rather use a toolchain I know better. In fact, I'd love to use clang on Windows.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by simoncion on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @07:01PM (#11393687)

> It means I need to install Visual Studio.

I mean, sure, but (unless things have changed dramatically in the many years since I was a Windows dev) you don't have to do anything more than install VS. The compilers and nmake can be used without opening the GUI. IIRC, you can feed a VS project file (or -I'm pretty sure- a solution file) to nmake and get the same result you'd get from loading the GUI and pressing build.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by yuubi on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:08PM (#11394736)

Confirming you can feed a .sln file to msbuild (I did it the other day), no idea about whether nmake accepts them. Source: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin3... .

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by simoncion on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:47PM (#11394851)

Ah, shit. I couldn't remember if the damn thing was called msbuild or nmake. [0] I guess one should replace all instances of nmake in my comment with msbuild.

[0] I do know that they are both parts of the VS build tooling. ;)

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by yuubi on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:48AM (#11395056)

I think nmake is or was a normalish make.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by chris_wot on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @07:09PM (#11393725)

Definitely time for me to get off my backside and install Visual Studio then...

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by voltagex_ on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:06PM (#11393401)

The latest Visual Studios support clang.

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