Would Microsoft Visual studios C++ 2010 work on Ubuntu?

Question

I want to use Ubuntu but I'm not sure if it will work for Microsoft Visual Studios C++ 2010. Or is there another program that will work on Ubuntu that will work just as good (if not better) than Visual Studios?

Answer 1

Visual Studio would run like death on Ubuntu, but if C++ is your target language, there are way better options out there, many of which are free.

Try Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/ or Code::Blocks: http://www.codeblocks.org/

Both are very popular.

Answer 2

Visual Studio

As per Wine HQ, Visual Studio performs horribly on Wine.

Visual Studio 2008 (9.0) Express Edition - Bronze

What works

• Installing using the workaround for Bug #9158.
• Using the IDE to build and generate a DLL.

What does not

• Installing without using the workaround.
• On start the "Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package" fails to load.
• Build seems to sometimes get stuck at "Generating Code...", restarting the IDE and building again allows you to proceed.

Visual Studio 2010 Express - Garbage

What works

• Nothing

What does not

• Everything

Visual Studio 2010 Professional - Garbage

What works

• Installer

What does not

• Everything else

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - Garbage

What works

• Open the installer

What does not

• Installing part of Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2011 Ultimate Beta - Garbage

What works

• Nothing.

What does not

• Installing with netinstall fails with #(loc.FailedHeader)

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Monodevelop

The only other option for opening .sln files on Linux is Monodevelop. Lots of features which you expect in Visual Studio are missing.

Answer 3

For C++ Development on Ubuntu, Eclipse is your best bet, and the easiest way to get the Eclipse IDE is:

sudo apt-get install eclipse

Answer 4

Visual Studio 2008 works good with a workaround and it's possible to use the IDE and create a DLL. Visual Studio 2010 hasn't been tested on Wine 1.4 and 1.5 and doesn't work on Wine 1.3.

Install instructions for 2008:

• Install Wine 1.4 or 1.5
• Create an empty Wineprefix: open a terminal window and enter

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2008" winecfg

• Download Winetricks:

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks

• Install .NET Framework 3:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2008" bash winetricks -q dotnet35­

• Install Visual Studio 2008:

from online installer use this workaround:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2008" _SFX_CAB_SHUTDOWN_REQUEST=1 wine ./vcssetup.exe

or from CD or ISO:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2008" wine ./autorun.exe

Source: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11210

Install instructions for 2010:

• Install Wine 1.4 or 1.5
• Create an empty Wineprefix: open a terminal window and enter

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2010" winecfg

• Download Winetricks:

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks

• Install .NET Framework 3:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2010" bash winetricks dotnet20 dotnet40

• Install Visual Studio 2010:

from online installer use this workaround:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2010" _SFX_CAB_SHUTDOWN_REQUEST=1 wine ./vcssetup.exe

or from CD or ISO:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.vs2010" wine ./autorun.exe

Source: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22306

Answer 5

I know this is an older post, but if anyone comes here afterwards by means of a Google search, and you don't want to go through the WINE setup...

CodeLite - http://codelite.org - is a great open source, cross platform IDE for C/C++. It is much like CodeBlocks but a lot simpler for beginners and/or new users, and it has an option for opening .sln files for VS projects.

I am sure there are also .sln plugins for CodeBlocks but CodeLite has that already loaded and easy to find. http://codelite.org has every download type including apt links which open up Ubuntu Software Center.