I am developing a 'larger' application, and in order to UnitTest the different components, I created additional unit-testing projects (within the Visual Studio Solution), added a reference to my home project, and included the .h and .cpp files from the main project (Add | existing...).
This all works very well, as long as all projects (main project and uni-ttesting projects) are all Arduino-type projects.

Now I want to set a step further, and add some Win32 console projects, so I can do some testing of my components in the Windows environment, for those things that do not touch the MCU hardware. I can only make this work when copying all the .h and .cpp files from the main Arduino project, to the Win32 project folder. I cannot make it work through a reference..

Has anyone done this with success ?
Thanks.

This is certainly useful. Let me digest the tutorials and I will give you feedback on how it went.
Thanks VisualMicro team, great product and fast support!

I have tried this in the "SharedCodeProject" from the instructable, and it worked fine for me, though it can depend on a variety of settings.

_WIN32 is defined by VS, so it may be safer to check for that instead / aswell.

#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(WIN32)
	#define WIN32
#endif

#ifndef WIN32
#include <Arduino.h>
#else
#include <stdint.h>
#endif 

If it still doesn't work, check the top of the output when building the console project (SharedProjectUnitTests project in example) to ensure its Configuration is set to Win32
(if not check the Properties to ensure  the platform set to "Win32" for the "SharedCode" project when building the console project)

This is just to begin to build the improved structures also allowed by the Arduino system, which help avoid conflicts as project complexity grows.

The projects are combined as part of the Arduino build process, so not having a structured merged result can easily create issues when all projects come together.

By putting them in \src\, and sub-folders below this to avoid conflicts when building for all platforms (see https://www.visualmicro.com/page/Understanding-Project-File-Structure.aspx). There is also an "\src\arduino folders read me.txt" with details on this when you create a new Arduino Project with Visual Micro.

You do not have to put shared code in an src folder but remember that arduino only supports cpp/c code in project root, \src or any level of sub folder of the src folder. Shared code has to be copied and merged with the project code during build. This happens in a temp folder but needs to be kept in mind.