I have a simple question in which I think the answer is no as I can only find back wards compatibility with Visual Studio.
I was wondering can VS2015 use the latest C++ compiler offered with VS2015? I am running into issues with things like to_string not being defined, while I have a work around for all my issues I would like to code with simple function calls rather than use work arounds.
If anyone knows how to do this or can show me a trick for it please let me know!
PS I saw the http://daffodil.codeplex.com/ and I see it only lets me set compiler settings for older versions of VS.
You can set the Platform Toolset to Visual Studio 2015. Bring up the properties for your project, and on the General page you can specify the Platform Toolset. If VS2015 isn't listed you installed the IDE but not the C++ compiler, or something got messed up in your install.
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There are some bugs introduced in 16.7 that affect me, and I would like to use 16.6.
Most of the questions I found refer to using VS2017 compiler, I want to use VS 2019 compiler, just an older version.
Best I found in official docs is to remove VS and reinstall, but I would like to avoid that.
I found solution of such problem for myself in following way.
You should locate MSVC build tools of chosen version in your folder like "Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC XX.YY.ZZZZ. If you just upgraded your VS it didn't remove old build tools (I hope). If it did or you just installed newer versions you can use VS Installer to add/download MSVC Build Tools of one of previous version.
You should change links to VCTools of previous version for Toolset v142 (that is 2019). To do his you can change text files located at something like "2019\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build". Files of our interest are "Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.txt" and "Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.v142.default.props".
That simple files just contains names of MSVC Tool version to use for Toolset v142
These changes will affect building of all you projects using toolset v142 (that is VC2019 Compiler)
I am sorry that VS does not currently support the ability to roll back a Visual Studio Update, you can only follow the method in the link. Luckily, Microsoft have already understood this issue and rolling back updates is certainly in their backlog. You could vote on this issue and express your demands.
I am trying to use Microsoft visual studio IDE to run my c++ code, however, when I go to create a project, I do not see the option for a c++ project. I tried reinstalling the program to see if I could somehow install the package/extension however it just won't seem to come up.
The only templates that appear are in c# or f#.
If someone could please lead me into the right direction so that I can fix this, it would be great. Thank you.
I don't see any mention of C++ in the release notes.
According to this post on MSDN, there is no C++ support in the Mac version of Visual Studio. It contains links to instructions for using Visual Studio Code, as well as the option to install a VM running Windows.
Apparently Visual Studio Code supports C++ projects, since it can execute external tools. The Microsoft Visual C++ build tools are free for Windows, but I don't think there is a version for the Mac, so some other external compiler is necessary.
Would like to ask a general question.
Would be trying to scope the difficulties and effort require to build a code (which was earlier build in MSVC 2005) in MSVC 2010.
I am not using any MFC, just using plain C++?
What would be the problems that I might face? Would appreciate any help to also highlight considerations that I should look into
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Microsoft keeps a list of breaking changes to the compiler on each major release, you can find that list here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb531344(v=vs.100).aspx. If you are going from 2005 to 2010 then you will want to look at both 2008 and 2010 changes.
I own VS 2008 Pro, and would like to do compatibility testing with VS 2005's runtime MSVCRT80, but I do not want to buy it just for that. Is there a way to link against MSVCRT80 without getting VS 2005?
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Official support for native multi-targeting didn't appear until Visual Studio 2010, which allows you to select either v100 or v90 as your "Platform Toolset". There is no such feature in Visual Studio 2008.
There is a discussion here on how one can achieve the same effect in Visual Studio 2008, but it appears you need to have VS 2005 installed on your computer as well in order for this to work. It isn't going to work if you just have the runtime libraries installed because you need the proper version of the compiler and linker, which you'll only have if you install VS 2005.
On that note, I'm not really sure what you mean by "compatibility testing". If you compile your app against v90 in VS 2008, it's not going to work with the older versions of the runtime. You have to compile and link against the version you want your app to use.
Finally, consider whether it's really relevant or not. Since you must include MSVCRT with your application anyway, what's the advantage of trying to link against an older version of the runtime? Just include v90 and be done with it.
Links to a still-working (as of 11 Jan 2011) Microsoft download for Visual C++ Express 2005 can be found here:
http://apdubey.blogspot.com/2009/04/microsoft-visual-studio-2005-express.html
This should let you compile against the VS2005 runtime without having to buy anything.
(in case the blogspot article goes away, the link for the .iso is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=57034).
Dev10 has facilities for using the C++ compiler shipped in Orcas. However, I really don't need to install the full IDE -- I merely need to use Orcas' compiler because I need to support Windows 2000.
What's the simplest way of installing just the bits required to build using Orcas' toolset in Dev10?
Given your condition, I'd say just install VS2008 and use it. While it's not what you want it's the fastest path to working.
What about setting up Visual studio 2008 to work with Orcas compiler ?
I'm sorry I don't know about this very compiler, but I know it's possible to use VS2008 with a different compiler, because I tried it.
You can find plenty of doc on running VS2008 with, for example, the Windows SDK compiler or VS2010 compiler. For example that links explains that quite well : http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/105011/Using-Visual-Studio-2008-IDE-with-Visual-Cplusplus.aspx
HTH