mfc, VC Project settings

by **Jon** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:00:44 GMT

Hello,

I am always get confused by the Project>>Settings dialog
box in visual studio. There're so many options to play
with. Anyone has a good online link (or other resources)
on how to play with this dialog?

Thank you,
Jon

by **Joseph M. Newcomer** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:26:20 GMT

The Good News: most of them are useless nearly all the time
The Bad News: When they're needed, figuring out which one to use is a pain

VS6 or VS7?

The ones that are most interesting are pretty simple. Search paths, predefined symbols,
lib files to link with, and linker output targets are the ones most commonly used.

Compiler error level checking and compiler optimizations are sometimes useful.

Of all the compiler options, the /P switch is the one most useful, and that has to be
hand-edited in. This lets you debug your buggy macros, by showing you the output generated
by the preprocessor.

Turning off precompiled headers for a particular file can be useful sometimes when you
have to import source files and don't want to (or can't) put in the #include "stdafx.h"
header at the front.

After that, it become relatively obscure. I so rarely use any but the most common ones
that I've not worried about them very much. The one that is hardest to deal with is the
custom job step. Not only is it obscure, but the designer of the dialogs was, shall we
say, TOTALLY CLUELESS about how users work---you can't exit the dialog until everything is
perfect, which means if you need to copy something out of another part of the dialog, say,
another custom job step, you are well and truly screwed over. Never over-validate and
prevent dialog exit if you don't know what you are doing is the lesson here.
joe

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by **Scott McPhillips [MVP]** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:37:37 GMT

The dialog is not described much in MSDN, but every setting that the
dialog controls is described. Look up the "Compiler Options" and
"Linker Options" sections in the C++ section in MSDN. You can start here:

< http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_.2f.MD.2c_2f.ML.2c_2f.MT.2c_2f.LD.asp> ;

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by **Tom Serface** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:42:53 GMT

Hi Jon,

You're right, there are a lot of settings in there. I've looked around over
the last while for a place to learn more, but unfortunately the best place I
found is the online help. You can hit the Help button on any of the screen
and it will display a page or so of help on the items. There is also brief
help at the bottom of the screen that changes as you highlight items.

Tom

by **Ajay Kalra** » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:00:57 GMT

I think its a general conclusion about this dialog as far as VC6 is
concerned. What worked for me was over the years simply wanting to do
something and finding it by chance in one of the dialogs. Afterwards,
you simply get used to it.
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