Re: How to compile VC++ projects without VS IDE?

From:

Alan Johnson <alanwj@no.spam.stanford.edu>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++,comp.programming

Date:

Thu, 04 May 2006 16:13:30 -0700

Message-ID:

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youpak2000@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm working on a VC++ project developed using Visual Studio 2003 and
2005. I
want to compile the solutions from command like without installing VS
IDE.
I downloaded a free Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 from Microsoft website. It
has command line compiler cl.exe, but it can not open Solution files.
VS uses Devenv.exe and devenve.com to open Solutions, but they are not
included in the free toolkit.

Is there any free tool which can open and compile VS 'Solution' and
'Project' files?
Is there any tool to convert VS Solution and Project files to standard
makefiles?

I'd appreciate your help.

Thanks.

John

Off topic for comp.lang.c++, setting follow-ups to comp.programming.

I suggest reading the first chapter of the Win32 tutorial Alf P.
Steinbach is currently writing:
<url: http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32apitut/01.pdf>

It explains how to use Microsoft's compiler from the command line.

--
Alan Johnson