Building Emscripten Project with an IDE? - c++

I've recently discovered Emscripten as a way of writing native code and running it in a web browser.
I'd like to work with an IDE for code completion and be able to customize the build process for Emscripten.
The only tool I've found to build Emscripten this way is with VS2010 which has very limited c++11 support so that's not desirable.
I thought of using VS2013 and writing a custom build script but I've never used VS so I'm unsure how to do that or if it's even possible.
What are people using to work with Emscripten?

Not sure if you are aware of this. On the requirements page, the following is stated:
Visual Studio 2010 is required! Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 do not correctly compile Fastcomp. This issue will be fixed (eventually) when Fastcomp is migrated to use a LLVM 3.4 or later.

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Visual Studio 2017 wont show c++ template/extansion

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.

Gtkmm and cairomm with visual studio 11 (for the first time)?

I am learning c++ and wish to draw geometry to better enjoy the process and test my scripts.
I searched for a library to draw vectors in c++ and found Cairo came highly recommended on this site. I went ahead and downloaded Gtkmm that comes with Cairomm and installed it. I so far used this aweomse tutorial:
https://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows/UsingMSVC
I followed the steps but I think this tutorial might be outdated or there may be an issue with one of the steps on MSVC 2012 with gtkmm-vc100-d-2_4.props (that is perhaps only supported on MSVC 2010).
In general I really want to get started but I am new to this and very confused atm.
It seems the current latest Project property file is not supported with Visual Studio 11 (2012).
I should have known that with the file name being, 'gtkmm-vc100-2_4'.
It works perfectly with VC10 so I reverted to using that for the time being.
I compiled gtkmm3 on Widnows 7 x64 (including cairo and others) for Visual Studio, see this
I have a CMake based project to build gtkmm on top of MSYS2 (it used to use OBS). It can be used with any version of Visual Studio supported by CMake as well as plain makefiles and jom makefiles.

Using Apache Thrift in Windows

I'm interested in compiling Thrift-generated code and linking to the thrift C++ library in a windows environment. Doing some research, I found a few recent links:
1) Thrift Win32 Installation Using Cygwin/MinGW
2) THRIFT-1031 and THRIFT-1123 patches to compile in MS Visual C++
Using #1, I was able to compile a linux library using MinGW, named libthrift.a. But what I would REALLY like to do is be able to generate Thrift code, and compile it IN WINDOWS using a Thrift dll or lib.
In other words, I see how I can use MinGW to compile Thrift code that EXECUTES in Windows. But I want to be able to DEVELOP AND COMPILE code that uses Thrift, in Windows. Is this possible?
If not, I suppose #2 is my only option, but it seems to be still highly in development phase.
Any ideas?
Thrift 0.8 has Visual Studio 2010 projects for the Thrift compilier and library. A number of contributors have put in alot of hard work to support Windows VS development. The 0.8 dev release may be downloaded as a snapshot or via SVN http://thrift.apache.org/download/
I've created projects using Thrift in VS and it works great.
ThereĀ“s a patch available to copile the thrift runtime with visual studio c++. It would be great if the thift developers put this patch in the main code.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-591
Thrift 0.10.0 has much better support for building on Windows.
Visual Studio projects in the source which is the recommended approach on the official site.
CMake generated Visual Studio C++ projects which is not documented on the official site but turns out to be more convenient.
See Apache Thrift on Windows for detailed steps.

Is the MSTestExtensions project compatible with VS2010?

We've been using VS2008 and soon will be upgrading to VS2010. I have been using MSTestExtensions for it's database rollback feature for integration tests via MSTest. It seems the open source project has not been having much contribution in the last 2-3 years. Thus, I was curious if anyone has tried to use it with VS2010. Does it still work?
Seeing that you can download the source code to the MSTestExtensions project, it might be worth getting the source and building it in VS 2010. Since the MSTest functionality in VS 2010 has not changed that much since VS 2008 (from what I've read), I would say you have a good possibility of getting the code to build. The resulting binaries could be used for your VS 2010 development (hopefully! :)
I can now verify that the 2008 MSTestExtensions dll does indeed work with Visual Studio 2010.
The only thing is it didn't show up in the list of .net references so I had to manually browse to where it was installed. In my case that was to C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\MSTestExtensions. Just add a reference to the version 2.0 dll (VS 2008 version) and it will work as expected.

How do I configure Qt to work with Visual Studio 2010?

I downloaded open-source version of Qt from the site and have compiled it with nmake, but I'm having trouble using it in my projects. It seems that Visual Studio can't find the Qt headers, even though I added the paths to my PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB variables. I tried installing the Qt Visual Studio add-in but it only supports Visual Studio 2008.
Has anyone gotten Qt to work with Visual Studio 2010? Or do I have to wait until Qt 4.7 is officially released for Visual Studio 2010 support?
Either download the pre-built vs2008 package or build it using cmake's vs2008 profile and then open the resulting .sln file in vs2010 and let it do the conversion.
edit - annoying feature so far is that the vs plugin doesn't support vs2010 which makes it essentially impossible to use for desktop app development.
Traditionally VS support was part of the paid licences, with the OS package you only get mingw support. Things are changing, but might have some rough edges for a while.
OTOH, mingw has a HUGE advantage: deployment. You don't have to chase around the vcredist_x86 files and all the associated voodoo. Just be sure to include all the .DLLs you use and that's it.
Also, there's QtCreator. It's not as featureful or omniscient as VS; but it does feel a lot nicer and easier to use. It takes off all the tedious work of nmake, and embeds the UI editors. And it's cross platform!
honestly, for me VS can drop dead this minute and i won't miss it.
Qt V4.8.0 contains prebuilt binaries for Visual Studio 2010 so you don't need to build manually anymore:
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2010