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Reclzz
Reclzz

Reputation: 149

Libraries VS2015

Good evening

I'm trying to set up a development environment on my newly Boot-Camped Windows 10.

I know how to link the include/lib in VS. On my Mac all my external libraries and include files are at either: /use/local/ or /opt/local/

I'm wondering whether there is an easy way to do this on windows, or are there a way to force VS to always look in a particular dir?

Cheers

Upvotes: 2

Views: 117

Answers (1)

Nikola Dimitroff
Nikola Dimitroff

Reputation: 6237

VS has the concept of property sheets which basically are a predefined set of properties for your project. Every C++ project includes by default few property sheets and there's even a special property sheet called Microsoft.Cpp.[Platform].user where [Platform] is either Win32 or x64. By editing the contents of this file you can set the paths for all your projects (or other arbitrary values such as macros).

To edit these files do either of the following:

  1. Make a new CPP project in VS. Go to View->Other Windows->Property Manager. This will show a new pane in the current window and from there you can find the property sheet and edit as you see fit. This approach has the benefit of being more user-friendly as VS provides some nice GUI. Here's one tutorial

  2. Find the files themselves (they are located in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0), open them using your favourite text editor and do your magic. The files are XML-based so it's not awfully difficult.

Upvotes: 1

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