Convert nmake makefile into Visual Studio 2005 project

Question

We have some old C code here that's built with nmake.

Is there an automated way to pull the Makefile into Visual Studio 2005 and create a project? Some searching on MSDN indicates VS6 could do this, but it looks like VS7/8 dropped the feature.

If necessary I can build the project from scratch using the project.mak file as a reference, but for more complex projects this may not be viable.

Answer 1

Here is a link to the VS 2005 docs on the subject. It also has links to VS 2003 & 2008, which are probably the same.

Edit: I would only want to do this with old code that would not change much, especially in the way of compile and link parameters, as hand editing the make file is the only way to change how the code compiles.