Setup ===== Setting Scripts --------------- @@ Replace this section with a proper package build/install instructions when the package name is finalized. @@ Interestingly INSTALL files for our packages provide instuctions how to build the package but not how to install it. The "driver" scripts that you will be invoking are cl-NN, link-NN, lib-NN, etc., where NN is the Visual Studio version (e.g., 11, 12, 14, etc). There are also the "configuration" scripts, msvc-NN, which provide the Visual Studio/SDK location and configuration (in a way similar to vcvars32.bat). There is also a bunch of other helper scripts that you will not need to modify or invoke directly. It is also required to build msvc-filter utility. To do that run build2 in the project's directory. All of these scripts and utility should reside in the same directory. In particular, you cannot copy, say, cl-NN to /usr/local/bin/ while leaving the rest in some other directory -- this will not work. What you can do, however, is create symlinks to the driver scripts in /usr/local/bin/ -- this will work. If you only need to make the scripts usable by a single user, then the easiest approach is to add the script's directory to your PATH in, say, .bashrc, for example: export PATH=$HOME/msvc-linux:$PATH Alternatively, if you have something like ~/bin/ that is already in PATH, then you can simply add symlinks to the scripts. This way you can also choose shorter tool names, for example: for t in cl link lib mt rc; do \ ln -s .../msvc-linux/$t-14u2-64 ~/bin/$t-14; done Install Wine ------------ You need 1.7.55 or later. Previous versions are known not to work with Visual Studio 14. For Ubuntu, to install stable: # add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa # apt-get update # apt-get install --no-install-recommends winbind # apt-get install wine1.7 # apt-get install p11-kit-modules:i386 libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 For Ubuntu, to install staging (into /opt/): # add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds # apt-get update # apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging To install compatibility symlinks: # apt-get install winehq-staging Configure Wine -------------- $ winecfg If it suggests installing some stuff (Gecko, Mono), refuse. Change the platform to Windows 7 (later version will probably also work). 64-bit link.exe from Visual Studio 14 is known not to work with Mono that may have (still) been installed by winecfg. To remove it, run: $ wine64 uninstaller --remove '{E45D8920-A758-4088-B6C6-31DBB276992E}' Prepare to Copy Visual Studio ----------------------------- Note that below we assume that you have installed Visual Studio in the default location. The following instructions are for mounting the VM parition on Linux host. However, simply archiving the required directories on the running VM and copying them to the Linux host should work as well. Mount the VM disk (make sure it is not running) where you installed Visual Studio. First get the second partition offset () and sector size (normally 512, as below). # fdisk -lu .../windows-7.img Then mount via the loopback device: # losetup -o $((512*)) /dev/loop0 ./windows-7.img # mount -o ro /dev/loop0 /mnt When finished copying Visual Studio, unmount and delete the loopback: # umount /mnt # losetup -d /dev/loop0 Copy and Setup Visual Studio 11 ------------------------------- $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/VC" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/" $ cp "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/Common7/IDE/mspdb110.dll" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0/VC/bin/" $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.0" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/" Add lower-case symlinks for upper-case named headers: $ etc/lowercase-headers \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.0/Include" Run the VC11 redistributable DLLs installer for both x64 and x86 from .../VC/redist/1033/. Add overrides for msvcr110.dll and msvcp110.dll: run winecfg, select the "Libraries" tab, then enter the DLL name and "Add". Copy and Setup Visual Studio 12 ------------------------------- $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/" $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/" Add lower-case symlinks for upper-case named headers: $ etc/lowercase-headers \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include" Run the VC12 redistributable DLLs installer for both x64 and x86 from .../VC/redist/1033/. Add overrides for msvcr120.dll and msvcp120.dll: run winecfg, select the "Libraries" tab, then enter the DLL name and "Add". Copy and Setup Visual Studio 14 ------------------------------- Note: If using 14 Update 2, then use the *-14u2 driver scripts. Note: 14 Update 2 requires Wine 1.9 or later (bug #34851). Note: 14 Update 2 is known to work with Wine 1.9.7, 1.9.8 but not 1.9.15. $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/" $ cp "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/redist/x86/Microsoft.VC140.CRT/msvcp140.dll" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/" Remove Microsoft's "experience improvement data uploade" which crashes: $ find ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/" \ -name vctip.exe -exec rm -f '{}' ';' $ mkdir -p ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/" $ cp -r "/mnt/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/" Add lower-case symlinks for upper-case named headers: $ etc/lowercase-headers \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include" \ ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Include" Installing via the redistributable DLLs still does not work as of Wine 1.7.55. Instead, we have to manually copy a bunch of DLLs from /mnt/Windows/{SysWoW64/ System32/} to .wine/drive_c/windows/{syswow64/ system32/} and add Wine overrides (run winecfg, select the "Libraries" tab, then enter the DLL name and press "Add"). To discover the list of DLLs, run cl-14 to compile and link and an executable and then run the executable itself (see Test below): any DLL that causes an error needs an override. For Wine 1.7.55-1.9.8 the list is: api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll ucrtbase.dll vcruntime140.dll msvcp140.dll The following overrides are necessary because of some unimplemented functions: api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll Test ---- cl-NN /EHsc /MD /TP hello-world.cxx ./hello-world.exe Usage ===== To suppress Wine debug messages (especially advisable if running executables built with more recent Visual Studio versions) you may want to add the following line to your .bashrc or similar: export WINEDEBUG=fixme-all