I was looking around how to use plain Makefiles with VIsual Studio and bumped into a demo of driving compilation and debugging on Linux from Windows Visual Studio. So intriguing I had to share... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-develo...
I see the possibility of Windows Visual Studio debugging the VM while it runs inside Windows Subsystem For Linux** displaying its graphical windows in a Windows xclient. Great when only a single machine will do, like multi-platform coding while drinking daiquiris on a Caribbean beach.
cheers -ben
** e.g. Unbuntu, Centos7 (could not get Centos6 working)
On 14 August 2018 at 22:38, Ben Coman btc@openinworld.com wrote:
I was looking around how to use plain Makefiles with VIsual Studio and bumped into a demo of driving compilation and debugging on Linux from Windows Visual Studio. So intriguing I had to share... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual- c-for-linux-development/
I see the possibility of Windows Visual Studio debugging the VM while it runs inside Windows Subsystem For Linux** displaying its graphical windows in a Windows xclient. Great when only a single machine will do, like multi-platform coding while drinking daiquiris on a Caribbean beach.
cheers -ben
** e.g. Unbuntu, Centos7 (could not get Centos6 working)
TL;DR...1m44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NenIuAbtGs
More in depth...11m44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiFuBczd6A
And something else interesting... "Using MinGW and Cygwin with Visual Studio and Open Folder" https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/07/19/using-mingw-and-cygwin-wi...
cheers -ben
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