Visual Studio for Linux (Chrome, Raspberry Pi etc)

[Ed P]

If you are a programmer and strapped for cash, then you may be interested in this cross-platform build for Visual Studio.

It covers a large range of Linux distros (including Chrome) and because of the architectures covered it includes not only x86 machines but also amd64, armhf, arm64 giving both Chrome and Pi coverage.

VS has a bit of a learning curve but is a ‘professional’ RAD.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

On the other hand you could approach it from the other direction, from the comfort of your Windows PC ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs2017-compatibility-vs

 

[Ed P]

Apparently no Pi in that one although I could be wrong.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

As long as the Pi is running a supported version of Linux then it should work. The actual compilation is done on the target machine via a network link. If I had a Pi I would test it but the only one I ever had broke last year ?

[Ed P]

It would be the compilation step that would worry me. The Pi is NOT standard Android at chip level even though it uses ARM. It can be done but the link for VS did not specifically cover it.

link

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Linux development with C++ in Visual Studio

Above is the direct link to the Linux getting started blog.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

A spot of post overlap there ?

The only way to see if it would really work then is to give it a go and sadly I cant due to lack of Pi ?

[Ed P]

For that reason alone I would go the way I first posted.

In any case although development on a Pi can be a bit kludgy, using  VNC viewer makes it easy enough just to develop on any wireless attached pc and just forget the RAD aspects, If RAD was essential for pretty output (in any case hard to do on a Pi) then I’d drop back to using Lazarus within the Pi and code using VNC attached to a  remote desktop.

However, tbh it is easier and more productive to use Python. OK it isn’t as snappy as compiled C but there are a lot of very useful libraries e.g. OpenCV.

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