I am unable to compile my very first Win32 code. Please help me out.

I am using Visual C++ 2010 to compile the code given in this link:

Code:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/opengl_first_windows_app.html

I used precompiled Win32 Project and I am still getting some errors:

Code:

1>c:\users\anoop\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\ui\ui\ui.cpp(33): error C2664: 'TextOutW' : cannot convert parameter 4 from 'char [14]' to 'LPCWSTR' 

1>          Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast 

1>c:\users\anoop\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\ui\ui\ui.cpp(63): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'const char [8]' to 'LPCWSTR' 

1>          Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast 

1>c:\users\anoop\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\ui\ui\ui.cpp(82): error C2664: 'CreateWindowExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [8]' to 'LPCWSTR' 

1>          Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

Please, help me.

From the menu: Project -> Properties
Select: Configurations: -> All Configurations
Select: Configuration Properties -> General
Select: Character Set -> Use Multi-Byte Character Set

gg

thank you Codeplug for giving me solution to my problem.

it would be handy if the compiler displayed that to you tho

It also might be nice if the tutorials used the character set independent macros, then it would compile with either setting.

Then again, if everything always worked, you would never learn anything.

I highly discourage the use of TCHAR's, but every Win32 API user has to learn about them eventually.

gg