I am using this C++ book for a college class. I have a MAC and have installed Visual Studio (Visual Studio Community 2019 for Mac Version 8.3.11 (build 1)) and am trying to open the code examples supplied with the book. The book includes examples for Visual Studio as well as xcode. I am able to open the xcode projects, however when I try and open the VS examples (.sln file) I get the error message "This project type not supported..." (see image below). Is there a way to fix this?
Visual Studio for MAC does NOT support C++.
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I am using Visual Studio for Mac 2022, and I am trying to create a C++ console application, does anyone know how to get those templates shows up when I choosing language?
Visual Studio for Mac is an IDE solely for .NET development.
If one looks at the Visual Studio website, it provides a comparison of the Mac and PC versions of Visual Studio. C++ development is not available for Visual Studio 2022 for Mac.
However, there exist many IDEs that support C++ development on Mac. Apple's very own Xcode allows the creation of C++ projects, as well as Visual Studio Code, a highly extensible code editor. CodeBlocks and CLion also exist as C++ IDEs for macOS.
I have a C++ project that I cross-compile using a makefile (written by me, not automatically generated).
I have recently moved to WSL2 and have been missing the good ol' days when I used Eclipse since (Visual Studio Code is not even close to what Eclipse can do).
I decided to give Visual Studio a go but I all I could find is this article about VS + WSL2 + cmake.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/walkthrough-build-debug-wsl2?view=msvc-170
Is it possible to create a C++ makefile project under WSL2 with Visual Studio?
I retrieved a C++ VS project from 2011 and it has a Install-win32.vdproj I guess it has to be the file I need to open in order to build the project.
Unfortunately Visual Studio 2017 seems not to recognize this kind of file. Is there any ways to interpret it or convert it?
For VS2017, use the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects. Download link is below. Be sure to close Visual Studio before running the installer:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.MicrosoftVisualStudio2017InstallerProjects
I have installed Code::Blocks on my (Windows) machine. It is working fine.
However there are some open source libraries that i would like to use. For this i will have to build the library on my machine. However the source code is available in the form of a MS Visual Studio solution file.
I've tried to use the 'Import Project' feature of Code::Blocks but got errors with that. I am now thinking of installing MS Visual Studio express edition to see if can build the library using it. I do want to keep my install of Code::Blocks.
I wanted to ask if there are any problems having these two IDEs (Code::Blocks & MS Visual Studio Express Edition) on the same machine? I know they use different default compilers.
Is it possible to get Visual C++ 2010 Express for Mac OS X?
If not is there another application, other than Xcode, that will do the same thing?
Visual Studio C++ is not supported on OS X.
You can use either Eclipse or KDevelop. A complete listing IDEs for C++ is available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#C.2FC.2B.2B
There is no Visual Studio for Mac that I'm aware of. I think QtCreator, Eclipse and NetBeans all work on Mac.
Microsoft has a version of Visual Studio which is cross platform. It will run on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It is called Visual Studio Code. You can download it at: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
You will have to download the C++ extensions. It will take you to the market place where you can get the extension for free.
Personally I prefer Xcode when coding on a Mac.
It's not hard to learn, but because it is fairly new there aren't many useful videos or articles on how to navigate Visual Studio Code. If you are familiar with Visual Studio IDE for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio Code is a totally different program.
You can try Eclipse:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers-includes-incubating-components/indigor
If you really want visual c++ bootcamp you MacOS. Install windows along side with Mountain Lion and you are good to go.