Visual studio 2010 project for windows and linux

I'm tr开发者_StackOverflow中文版ying to make a program that works on linux and windows. I'm writing the program in visual studio in a windows environment.

So I wonder how I could compile my project from visual studio to linux.

The Microsoft C++ compiler is not capable of producing Linux executables.

You will need to use a more portable compiler for your Linux executables, e.g. gcc. Perhaps you may benefit from a cross-platform IDE like Code Blocks or Eclipse rather than Visual Studio.

You should try QT. It is pretty good framework for cross-platform development. The opensource version is free and very well maintained and has the LGPL license. That means you can sell your product as closed source but then you have to dynamically link to QT libraries.

You can use CMake. It will allow you to generate project/solution files for Visual Studio and Makefiles for Linux. This way, you can work using the native tool chain for a platform, while managing a single makefile. However, it's up to you to write portable code and to choose the appropriate libraries for your program to be truly portable.