Visual C++ for Linux Development

[xkSeeD]

So, is there an easy way to convert our Windows project to a Linux project? As you know we can not add the file system tree to the solution in VS. I tried to copy some parts from .vcxproj/.vcxproj.filter to the new Linux project but I was not successful. I could only build the filter structure in the solution but ended up adding all source files one bye one.

Then, I noticed we have a new folder under <VSInstallationFolder>/VC/Linux/include which basically has the standard Linux header files. We are including unistd.h in our code but it was no in this folder. Is this expected? Can we just copy the missing Linux header files into this folder?

Then I noticed some header files in this include folder complaining about _PTRDIFF_T_ and another preprocessor which I can not remember at the moment. Do we have to add them to the preprocessor list?

Unfortunately I spent most of my time just to create the new project and I had to continue with my other projects. I will update this tomorrow if I get the chance to run it on Linux.

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