I have installed visual studio 2008 Professional Edition and I am not able to set /SUBSYSTEM:POSIX option in one of the visual C++ projects. I also installed Visual Studio Debugger addin from SUA but still same. Please see attached screenshot for version information.
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Niraj Rathi
It's gone. However, Visual Studio does provide a bunch of header files to provide functionality that gets close (but not the same), such as direct.hfor directory operations.
Currently, the best way of getting POSIX on Windows is probably Cygwin or it's friends.
There is Windows Services for UNIX (SfU), but according to some it was quite close to what Cygwin was in 2006. Seeing how Cygwin and some of its comrads are live and well and SfU did not see an update in over half a decade, I would choose the former any day of the week.
If you are interested in a blast from the past, checkout this little nugget from 2006 which is Microsoft's official How to port from UNIX to Windows website. It seems rather useless, but funny what Microsoft thought is "useful" in 2006.
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I guess I may be getting into trouble for asking ironically obvious questions. I had found the place that shows where things are installed on Visual Studio 2015 in 2016, but now I can't remember where it is. I see instructions of how to check using the command line, although I saw a nifty place that showed me which components were installed somewhere in the toolbars on top in 2016. Funny.
I'd like to compile panda3d for arm and downloaded the c++ version visual studio express. Sadly the last time I used c++ is about 4 years ago. I googled how to get the project to compile to arm but I only found this:
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7675465_add-support-visual-studio-express.html
It looks pretty straightforward but the problem is: I'm using the german version of visual studio and there are no such options. I tried to download the english version but the installer detected my systems language and fell back to german. I searched all menus I could find for proper compiler options but couldn't find anything. Now I wonder: The options can not simply have vanished in the german version. Are you having similar experiences ? Can you give me advice how to setup arm support or where to find the right settings ? Even better, if you're german, too, can you check if you have appropriate menus ?
Thank you for your time
UPDATE:
I'm using windows 7 64bit and have tried visual studio c++ express 2010 and visual studio c++ express 2008. The device I'd like to target will run with a nvidia tegra 3.
UPDATE #2:
I'd like to target a linux distro, most probably ubuntu.
If there's no support for arm in visualstudio I could switch to any other IDE just as well. Actually I only need that one compilation and figured using Visual Studio would be least problematic. If there's another easy alternative I'd appreciate it, if you told me.
That's probably unrelated to your German version; my English setup of VS2010 doesn't have that option either. But what precise platform are you targetting? The different Visual Studio versions are tied in with particular Windows CE versions, and compatibility is rather limited.
Not sure if OP is aware, but targeting a linux distro doesn't play well with visual studio.
Definitely wrong path.
IMO, using Visual Studio is the best tool for development, with pretty good on-device debugging capabilities, even though ARM support is quite limited, it's still is one of the best tools. But you won't be able to make anything with for a linux distro, it will work only as an advanced text editor.
Could somebody please point me at the download link for Visual C++ 2005 Express x64 (AKA Visual Studio 8) before I am sectioned under the mental health act?
If I want any GCC point release from the last 10 years I can get it in under 30 seconds from a single page. Microsoft's website is a nightmare beyond imagining. Even Google can't get me what I'm looking for. Hours of my life have now disappeared. Please don't post a link to an article from Microsoft about this because I have read them all. I've been through pages which link to other pages, which then loop back on themselves, or point to dead links, or purport to offer a download but which actually link back to marketing material and stock photographs of people laughing at computer screens.
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Try the last one here Microsoft Windows SDK Update for Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0.
That will give you Visual C++ 2005 SP1.
There is not a separate package for installing Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition -- or any of the Visual Studio 2005 products -- on x64.
In order to target x64 in VS2005, I'm sorry to say, I'm going to give you this link: How to: Configure Visual C++ Projects to Target 64-Bit Platforms
If you just want the 64-bit compiler (no IDE) then you can download it as part of the Windows Vista SDK.
I'm learning win32 apps with C++. I've got a pretty good API reference, but it's from 1997. Is there a more modern version available for download?
My connection is horrendous so I'd like it to be fully accessible offline. Something akin to a chm or hlp file...searchable and up to date-ish.
If you install the Windows SDK, it comes with all the documentation as well. The download is enormous though, but at least you can do it all-at-once.
Here's another download which is just the documentation (and slightly out-of-date, but still covers 99% of the Win32 API): MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
For complete reference of Win32 API(of course the content is still slightly out of date) I keep both MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
and Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista
Because for some reason the 2008 SP1 contains stripped down content.
I've been developing a couple of C# tools recently, but primarily working with a lot of legacy Visual Basic 6.0 code (I know, I know...). For the C# development, I've been using Visual Studio 2008 Professional edition that I downloaded using our MSDN subscription here at work.
But, as a change of pace over the weekend, I was going to check out a complex C++ project that we have. However, when I went to open it through Visual Studio, it wouldn't open it saying that the .vcproj file type wasn't supported. I figured it was a compatibility issue and that the project file type had changed between versions of Visual Studio, but when I tried creating a new C++ application inside Visual Studio 2008 Pro, the option just wasn't there.
I've been searching online by way of Bing, Google, MSDN, and MSDN subscriber downloads to no avail. Nothing I've found so far explains why this is happening.
I have found the express edition of MS Visual C++ 2008, but I could not locate the "full version" of this part of Visual Studio.
Any help would be much appreciated.
It sounds like you haven't got it installed.
Go to Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features, or whatever Windows 7 calls it) and modify your installation. You'll get a list of checkboxes so you can install C#, VB.NET, Crystal Reports etc... and Visual C++. Check that checkbox and wait the hour or so for the installer to do its stuff.