Re: [cdt-dev] [New to the Forum] Migrating Visual Studio Project to Ecli

[Jesper Eskilson <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olumide wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the forum so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post
> (admin please relocate my post if need be -- thanks).
> 
> I've decided to move my rather large visual studio projects to Eclipse
> (VS can no longer cope, or rather I can no longer cope without proper
> context sensitive method selection, refactoring or place marks). I've
> searched out a few guides on how to migrate a VS project (I'm currently
> using the .NET 2003 version) to eclipse, unfortunately, all the help
> pages out there are outdated. For example:
> http://eclipsewiki.editme.com/InstallingCDTWithMSVisualC
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-vscdt/
> 
> Its also been suggested by someone (here
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg08937.html )
> that devenv can be used (with ant) instead make, but I don't know how to
> configure ant to use make and to use all the windows libraries that my
> projects require.

The post you are referring to says nothing about ant. The point is that
you can let Visual Studio build your project from CDT using the
devenv.com command line tool (Create a "standard make" project and use
"devenv.com" instead of "make" to build your project), but the major
drawback of that solution is that you still need to manually maintain
your visual studio projects. (Which is the major selling point of CMake,
IMHO; no more manual maintenance of studio project files).

Converting to CMake is usually a safe choice, since you're keeping your
options open as to which build tools or IDE to use.

--
/Jesper