{"id":150,"date":"2014-02-04T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:39:31","slug":"linux-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/tutorials\/linux\/import\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing remote Linux projects to Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This tutorial shows how to import a Linux project from a Linux machine to Visual Studio to build and debug it remotely. We will download the sources of Midnight Commander<\/a> to the Linux machine, import them to Visual Studio, build, debug and modify them directly from the Visual Studio. We will use the VisualGDB wizard to setup a network share and connect to it automatically.<\/p>\n

To proceed with the tutorial you will need a Windows machine and a Linux machine. You can use 2 physical computers, a Windows computer running Linux inside VirtualBox<\/a>\/VMWare<\/a> or vice versa.<\/p>\n

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  1. Install VisualGDB<\/a> on your Windows machine with Visual Studio.<\/li>\n
  2. On your Linux machine get the source code of Midnight Commander by running the following commands from your home directory:\n
    sudo apt-get build-dep mc\r\napt-get source mc<\/pre>\n
    \"01-getsource\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. When the source code is downloaded, go to the newly created directory and configure Midnight Commander with default settings:\n
    cd mc-<VERSION>\r\n.\/configure<\/pre>\n
    \"02-configure\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Open Visual Studio on your Windows machine. Select File->New->Project and find VisualGDB project wizard:\"03-newprj\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Enter a project name and specify the directory where it should be stored. Press OK.<\/li>\n
  6. On the first page select “Import a project”: \"04-import\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. If you have not used this computer with VisualGDB before, you will need to setup an SSH connection (see this tutorial <\/a>if you get stuck). Otherwise simply select the machine from the list:\"05-buildmachine\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. When you press “Next”, VisualGDB will test your toolchain for inconsistencies. If missing packages are detected, you will see a detailed error message.\"06-test\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. On this page you need to specify the location of your source files on the remote machine. Use the browse button to find it easily:\"07-sourcelocation\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. This page allows selecting how Visual Studio will access the source files on the Linux machine. The recommended way would be to share a folder using samba. Click “Setup” to do it automatically:\"08-sourceaccess\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Creating a separate shared folder for each project would be too much overhead, so we simply share a parent folder (the home folder in this case). You can pick any valid folder and any share name here. To prevent access from unauthorized users you can specify a username and a password that will be used to access the folder over SMB. VisualGDB will remember them and use them automatically to establish the connection. \"09-newshare\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. When you press OK, you will most likely get an error message stating that you have no permission to modify the samba configuration. This is by design – only the  root <\/strong>user can normally create shared folders on Linux. Press “yes” to reconnect as root and sharing the folder again:\"10-root\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Once the share is made, the VisualGDB wizard will display the information about it on the diagram below. Use it to verify that the setup matches your expectations.\"11-sharemade\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. On this final page you can specify the commands VisualGDB should use to build your project. You can also select the main executable right now, or choose to provide it later.\"12-buildcommands\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. If you are not sure about the build command and build directory, press the “Run build command now” button to test the command right now before saving your choices:\"13-testbuild\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Press Finish to create your project. Now you can build it with Ctrl+Shift+B and start debugging with F5. If you have not selected the main binary before, VisualGDB will kindly ask you to do it now:\"14-selectexe\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Use the “browse” button to find the binary easily. For the mc<\/strong> project it is located inside the src directory:\"15-selectmc\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. VisualGDB will launch your project and show the output in the Program console window. VisualGDB provides an XTerm-compatible terminal emulator, so you can use your keyboard an mouse as usual:\"16-mcscreen\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Click on the “break all” button to stop the execution and see the call stack:\"17-callstack\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. You can now use all the usual Visual Studio debugging techniques: set breakpoints, examine call stack, watch windows, etc. When done, press Shift-F5 to stop debugging.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    <\/root><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    This tutorial shows how to import a Linux project from a Linux machine to Visual Studio to build and debug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}