Misc Visual C++

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Compilation Options

Controlling Compilation

• First load the corrected workspace you created earlier, (Day Of The Week), in the MS Visual C++ tutorial.

   

  From the Project menu select the Settings... Alt+F7 option to access the Project Settings compilation dialog window:

• We will now very briefly cover a couple of the compilation options available through the Project Settings tabs.

  General

  Click on the General tab if it is not already selected. Check that the Not Using MFC option is selected from the Microsoft Foundation Classes pull-down menu, since console applications do not need the MFC.

   

  C/C++

  Click on the C/C++ tab. Select Category: General
  Make sure that Warning Level 3 is selected. This instructs the compiler to check and generate additional code in the executable to produce warning messages for possible programming problems that would otherwise not be reported. This is the warning level that should be used for development. (Level 4 checks for possible problems which can often, but not always be ignored.)
  

• Select Category: Listing Files If you wish to have a listing produced that contains generated assembly language code choose the appropriate Listing file type.

   

  Other advanced compilation options are controllable from the Project Settings compilation dialog window, but are beyond the scope of this tutorial.