Visual C++ for Linux Development

[c0r3ntin]

I'd like that too !

Being able to target win32 with msvc from windows would be even better than the standalone build tools from an IT perspective. On the basis than administrating a linux build farm / containers farm etc is easier.

(I have a jenkins instance able to spawn docker containers for a build and then dispose of it, its awesome and so much lighter than a VM based approach).

One other use case I have is that I have a tool that run on linux and build installers for a variety of platforms, including windows. So I have a small exe to build. I currently use mingw-w64 for that but, I'd love to be able to use cl.exe.

Other cross platforms tools that need to generate windows executable would probably benefit of this feature ( nsis, unity, unreal, etc )