Appendix A -- The Build Environment

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To build the sample applications in this book, you must deal with compiler and linker switch settings. I have tried to isolate these details from the sample applications by putting almost all of these settings in a single header file, called CmnHdr.h, which is included in all of the sample application source code files.

Since I wasn't able to put all of the settings in this header file, I made some changes to each sample application's project settings. For each project, I displayed the Project Settings dialog box and then made the following changes:

• On the General tab, I set the Output Files directory so that all final .exe and .dll files go to a single directory.
• On the C/C++ tab, I selected the Code Generation category and selected Multithreaded DLL for the Use Run-Time Library field.

That's it. These are the only two settings that I explicitly changed; I accepted the default settings for everything else. Note that I made the two changes above for both the Debug and Release builds of each project. I was able to set all other compiler and linker settings in the source code, so these settings will be in effect if you use any of my source code modules in your projects.