This error can occur when you are statically linking your project with a library (typically a file with .lib extension) but the linker setting in your Visual Studio project are set to dynamically link (meaning the link will occur during runtime, usually with a .dll file). To define that you need the project to use … Read more
Search MSDN for “How to: Set Environment Variables for Projects”. (It’s Project>Properties>Configuration Properties>Debugging “Environment” and “Merge Environment” properties for those who are in a rush.) The syntax is NAME=VALUE and macros can be used (for example, $(OutDir)). For example, to prepend C:\Windows\Temp to the PATH: PATH=C:\WINDOWS\Temp;%PATH% Similarly, to append $(TargetDir)\DLLS to the PATH: PATH=%PATH%;$(TargetDir)\DLLS
Disabling option “Image has Safe Exception Handlers” in Project properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Advanced tab helped me.
Those two constructs a very different in their meaning. The first one uses a memset function, which is intended to set a buffer of memory to certain value. The second to initialize an object. Let me explain it with a bit of code: Lets assume you have a structure that has members only of POD … Read more
It’s worth noting that Visual Studio 2010 already had quite a bit of early C++11 support. So to summarize what is already linked to in other answers, here is what is new in Visual Studio 11 that was not part of Visual Studio 2010: rvalue references to version 2.1 from 2.0 lambdas to version 1.1 … Read more
Visual C++ version _MSC_VER Visual C++ 4.x 1000 Visual C++ 5 1100 Visual C++ 6 1200 Visual C++ .NET 1300 Visual C++ .NET 2003 1310 Visual C++ 2005 (8.0) 1400 Visual C++ 2008 (9.0) 1500 Visual C++ 2010 (10.0) 1600 Visual C++ 2012 (11.0) 1700 Visual C++ 2013 (12.0) 1800 Visual C++ 2015 (14.0) 1900 … Read more
For Visual Studio you’ll want to right click on your project in the solution explorer and then click on Properties. Next open Configuration Properties and then Linker. Now you want to add the folder you have the Allegro libraries in to Additional Library Directories, Linker -> Input you’ll add the actual library files under Additional … Read more
Add by Configuration Properties>>C/C++>>Preporocessor>>Preprocessor Definitions>> _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
You need to create a C API for exposing the functionality of your C++ code. Basically, you will need to write C++ code that is declared extern “C” and that has a pure C API (not using classes, for example) that wraps the C++ library. Then you use the pure C wrapper library that you’ve … Read more
C++ is a standardized language. Visual C++ is a product that more or less implements that standard. You can write portable C++ using Visual C++, but you can also use Microsoft-only extensions that destroy your portability but enhance your productivity. This is a trade-off. You have to decide what appeals most to you. I’ve maintained … Read more