Development on Visual Studio 2015 for Linux with Qt

[beecksche]

Hello,
I saw that they made a plugin for Visual Studio 2015 to develop Linux application: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-development/

Is it also possible to develop Qt application for Linix with Visual Studio 2015?

Thanks

[vladstelmahovsky]

@beecksche what the benefits of VS over QtCreator on Linux?

[mrjj]

I think he dreams of being in windows
and make linux exe files.

So he would not need to use Creator IN Linux to do so.
and it would be a cross compiling setup, I guess.

[A Former User]

@mrjj said:

and it would be a cross compiling setup, I guess

Actually it's not. It uses a remote Linux machine for compiling and debugging.

[beecksche]

@vladstelmahovsky
I run Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 3. Because of the perfomance of the Raspberry i don't want to develop the application directly on it. I'm also not really happy to develop on a virtual machine or have two OS on my pc.

I need to use MSVC 2013 and 2015 for other Qt/Non-Qt applications. So it would be really nice for me to develop a linux application with MSVC for linux with the Qt framework.

[mrjj]

@Wieland
"It uses a remote Linux machine for compiling and debugging."
Ok, so half a cross compiling setup ? :)

in theory this should also work with Qt but I guess it wont run moc and such Qt features
so would need tweaking to function.

Would be pretty cool if u already have fat VS installed. :)

[A Former User]

@beecksche Haven't tried this myself but I don't see any reasons for Qt-specific problems here.

[beecksche]

First of all i want to thank you all for the responses.

@Wieland how do i set up/configure the msvc project to use qt modules?

[A Former User]

@beecksche Don't know, I use Qt Creator.

[AlterX]

@beecksche said:

First of all i want to thank you all for the responses.

@Wieland how do i set up/configure the msvc project to use qt modules?

you just need to instll the Qt plugin, then set the generic (default) profile and then when you create a project, right click on the project name in VS and you have all the Qt voices where you can change things.