how to make visual studio project portable? (where to set includes/libs/preprocessor definitions etc.)

Question

In Visual Studio 2012 I have native C++ project. There are a lot of settings in "Properties" page of this project:

• Additional Include Directories
• Preprocessor definitions
• Additional Library Dependencies
• etc.

Later I need to migrate to Linux, and of course I need this settings too. Obviosly Visual Studio project can not be used in Linux

Can you suggest another, platform-independent, mechanism of declaring Additional Include Directories/Preprocessor definitions/Additional Library Dependencies etc. so I can migrate to Linux easier?

Answer 1

cmake might fit your needs: it's a cross platform build system that allows to configure your project in a compiler-independent way. For Windows, it is then able to generate Visual Studio Project files based on that configuration.