How to use Omake build system for a Visual studio 2010 project

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I have a project, which works fine in VS-2010. And runs fine. But I want to create a make-file by using Omake. How to build the same in Omake. I have gone through all the documentation of Omake, but it does not say how to make it. My VS-2010 project contains .c, .cpp, .h, .rc MFC and many subdirectories too.

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There is no direct way to convert a project from VS to Omake: you have to write the 'OMakefile's by hand since the two build systems (MSBuild is behind VS) and concepts are somewhat different. Once the OMakefile's are working, you can always create a Visual Studio project of type "Makefile" that calls the omake utility behind the scene.

If the reason for change is that you want to make the projet multi-platform (well, I doubt so since you use MFC), you may consider CMake, a widely-used project generation tool. CMake can generate both Makefiles (GNU) and VS projects, depending on the platform, from a project description.