Re: MS Visual C++

[Kevin Shea <kev@d-cubed.co.uk>]

Yes, you can create makefiles and use nmake to compile your projects
from the command-line or whatever. Be warned though that nmake isn't
particularly good compared to, say, Gnu's make.

As to the projects, they're basically a glorified Makefile but they do
provide some useful features such as automatically generating header-
dependencies. If you want to use the full Developer Studio IDE you have
to use them. It's worth learning how to use Devstudio and projects for
the debugger alone even if you don't use any other features.

They can also generate makefiles (with the dependencies) to use with
nmake.

Kev

Matthew J Burke wrote:
> 
> Can I compile in VC++ without creating those dang "projects"?  What are
> projects for anyways?  I never use them, and I don't know anyone who does.
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