This seems like it should be easy to do but after a couple hours of Googling I still can't figure out how to use GCC as the compiler for C++ in Visual Studio. I've installed MinGW and the the gcc packages from the installation manager and set the PATH variable to include "C:\MinGW\bin".
According to I can go to Project -> General -> Platform Toolset and select the compiler from there. The only options are Visual Studio 2019 (v142) and Visual Studio 2017 (v141) - I don't see the GCC compiler. I'm required to use GCC as the compiler for this course so any help with setting the compiler to be GCC is much appreciated!
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After a couple of hours I found out how one can change the compiler in the Visual Studio. However, it is not quite what you need. Anyway it is better than nothing.
- Open the Visual Studio Installer, click on the "Modify" button un make sure that you have the following components installed: Desktop development with C++, Linux development with C++.
- Open the Visual Studio, click on the "Create a new project" and choose for the language "C++", for the platform "Linux". Then you will see all available projects:
- I choose the "Console Application" project for Linux. Than, click on the "ConsoleApplication1" in the project explorer with the right mouse button, than on "Properties" and you will see this window:
I think, it is exactly what was written here. But for this solution you need a Linux machine that you can connect to and then compile on (Visual Studio explains exactly how this works when you create a project).
As an alternative, I could explain how to compile C and C ++ files under Windows in VS Code, but that's certainly another question.
