Using Xcode for Visual Studio C++ assignments

get a legal copy of windows and then download Virtualbox for free. Then install windows in a virtual environment, then download and install VS in the virtual environment.

You can also try mingw-gcc to cross compile on the mac to windows but I think your best option is a virtual environment

I remember many years go at the University I had the same problem and at that time Xcode was still not existing but I was using Project Builder 🙂

Anyway, depending on the complexity of console app a little effort is always required and remember that VS is not the most close implementation of the C++ "standard". Maybe posting a (little) full working VC++ code on year can give us a better chance to understand the nature of you problem.

I got legal copy of windows and i do have license for VMware but, problem is that i dont want to open virtual machine on my mac , as it slows him down quite a bit. So i dont like that solution, also Visual Studio in virtual machine works slow. I got macbook pro 13"2015 256GB SSD. I wanted to make my c++ small programs in Xcode but i cant belive that there is so huge diference in standard 😟

Sry mate but i need to say that c++ in Xcode and C++ in Visual Studio is not the same. What i write in Visual studio dont work in Xcode, for example int **r *r[i] =1 Would not work in Xcode i dont know how is this possible to happen if they are working on same standard then it should work easy.

I would not bother.

You're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

Just use Visual Studio for your classes so you don't introduce an extra complication when it comes to your assignments.

Then, when study is done, fire up Xcode and learn something worthwhile. 🙂

You can develop your code with Xcode, but you must port it to Visual Studio and test it using the same environment that the professor will mark it against. Doing both would be a little extra work, but you will learn more. That is pretty much how I did my entire computer science education.

If it's the sort of "console application" that relies on Windows conio.h header and corresponding library, I think it might be more than a little extra work for the OP to port code from Xcode to Visual Studio.

conio.h is nothing special. It would be a little extra work to port that to curses. Hopefully, neither conio.h nor MFC/.NET will be used. If it is a C++ class, it should use C++ I/O that will be more or less the same across all operating systems.

I know that using Apple's Clang compiler and its advanced error messages would give a student a definite edge over anyone using GCC. I haven't used VC++ recently enough to know what it looks like.

etresoft wrote:

Hopefully, neither conio.h nor MFC/.NET will be used. If it is a C++ class, it should use C++ I/O that will be more or less the same across all operating systems.

Should is the operative word here...some courses that I've seen syllbi for are fantastic in regards to being fully cross-platform (the courses at Stanford, for example). Others are not only single-platform, but single-compiler because their code relies on non-spec compiler hacks.

No idea where on that spectrum the OP's course lies.