Thread: Unicode C runtime lib in VS2008

Originally Posted by Opariti

Mats, I like this : . I'll dig into since this would be great! For the rest (msvcrt.dll/strlen is not unicode btw ...) I may not have been clear in my initial post. But, amazing, while the others came to the issue, you pop-up a very interesting opening! Thanks.

Sure. strlen is not unicode, nor is strcpy, strcat, etc. You need to use wcslen, and wcscpy, wcwcat, etc, etc.

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Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

Define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to avoid those "use fscanf_s" instead messages.

Sorry to bring up this thread again.

Here's a warning I got:

Code:

warning C4996: 'fopen': This function or variable
may be unsafe. Consider using fopen_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. 
See online help for details.

I tried:

Code:

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

but that didn't work.

I used the online(vc++ 2008) help, and it says to "simply define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS", with no instructions of how to go about it.

I did some research on the internet, and it appears I need to edit property sheets, but the VC++ 2008 Express instructions for property sheets don't match what I see on the screen(and don't match the options that are available). Perhaps it is for another version of VC++.

Originally Posted by tabstop

#define has to happen before #include.

Yep, that did the trick. Thanks.

You may also want to consider using the more secure functions, as well.
True, not as portable, but they are safer. Well, that can be debatable, but at least they help find bugs.
Mostly, simple wrappers can be built for these functions for compilers that do not support these.