MakeItSo converts Visual Studio solutions to gcc makefiles for Linux. It will convert all projects in a solution and create a makefile for each one. It also creates a master makefile that will build them in the correct dependency order.
Version 1.2 supports C++ and C# VS 2008 and VS 2010 solutions:
If you want to contribute to this project, please fork & submit a pull request. Richard S. Shepherd is no longer actively enhancing MakeItSo.
Many self-contained solutions can be converted just by running MakeItSo against the solution file. For more complex solutions, you can provide extra information to MakeItSo, for example to replace Windows-specific external libraries with Linux versions.
Download the latest version of MakeItSo from the featured-downloads link.
In Windows: run MakeItSo against a solution file (.sln). It will generate a master makefile called Makefile in the root folder of your solution, and project-specific makefiles in each project folder.
In Linux: run make from the solution root folder. The build output will be in a folder structure similar to the Visual Studio output, except that folders are prefixed with 'gcc', for example gccDebug instead of Debug. (C# builds prefix the output folders with 'mono'.)
If MakeItSo is on the path, you can run it from the solution root folder without any parameters: e:\code\my_solution>MakeItSo
If MakeItSo is not on the path, or if you want to convert a solution that is in a different folder from the working directory, you can pass MakeItSo the path and name of the solution to convert: c:\>MakeItSo -file=e:\code\my_solution\my_solution.sln
MakeItSo must be run from Windows, as it uses Visual Studio automation to parse the solution and project files.
Originally exported from code.google.com/p/make-it-so