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Visual C++: Files and Directories
Visual C++ does not respect (or use) the underlying directory structure of your existing source code files. Some may find this to be a failing, but I personally think this is a feature. It allows you...
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CPPUnit: Compiling with Visual C++ 2010
CPPUnit is a unit testing framework that is a port of the popular JUnit framework. Work on it has stalled and there has been no release since 2008. Work has continued on a fork called CPPUnit2. The...
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Visual C++: C Run-Time Libraries
Every Visual C++ project is linked with a C run-time library. This is called the CRT in Microsoft literature. Depending on the support for multi-threading there are 2 kinds of CRT: Single threaded CRT:...
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Visual C++: CRT Source Code
The source code of the C Run-Time library (CRT) of Visual C++ can be found in the directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\crt\src Exploring the code, one sees that most of the...
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Visual C++: Windows and Console Subsystems
Subsystem The Subsystem option can be found in any Visual C++ project here: Project → Properties → Linker → System → Subsystem. The choice of Subsystem decides the execution environment for the...
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Visual C++: Creating a New Configuration
Creating a new configuration for compilation in Visual C++ is easy! For example, say I want to create a new configuration that is same as Release mode, except I want assert() to be compiled. To do...
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CUDA: LNK2005 Linker Errors
The Problem When building a Visual Studio solution which has CUDA source files (*.cu), LNK2005 linker errors of the following kind might be seen: LIBCMT.lib(hooks.obj) : error LNK2005: "void __cdecl...
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CGAL: GMP and MPFR Linker Errors
Problem Compiling any Visual C++ solution that uses CGAL produces either or both of these errors: 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'gmp-vc90-mt.lib' 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104:...
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Visual C++: Assert in Release Mode
Problem In Visual C++, assertions are disabled in Release mode and enabled in Debug mode of the solution. I find assertions to be cheap and effective means of capturing programmer errors and would like...
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C++: pragma once
With both Visual C++ and GCC supporting pragma once completely, I do not see any reason to still use the include guards. Include guards were always a messy solution and I am glad that their death...
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LNK2038 Linker Error in Visual C++
Problem I got this error at the linking stage of compiling a Visual C++ project: Error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL': value '0' doesn't match value '2' in main.obj This project...
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How to build RDKit on Windows
RDKit is a cheminformatics library with a C++ and Python API. You typically need to build it only if you need to use the C++ API on Windows. Here are the steps that worked for me: 1. Install Python and...
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How to use Armadillo on Windows
Armadillo is a C++ template library for linear algebra. It is built upon LAPACK and BLAS. It offers a simple API that is similar to that of Matlab. 1. Download the source code of Armadillo from here....
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How to change working directory in Visual Studio
When developing a C++ program using Visual Studio, you typically compile and run it from the Visual Studio IDE. By default, when you do this, the executable is run with the working directory being the...
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