Using TextOut to display variables

I searched google for this a couple of different times,rephrasing my search query. I have an int variable and need to display it on a window. I know there is a way you can format the variable so you can pass it to the TextOut function. I was wondering if anybody knew how to format the variable so TextOut will accept it? I tried this code but it doesn't display it, it compiles though:

Code:

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TextOut(hDC,x,y,(LPCTSTR)clicks,2);

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clicks is my int variable and x and y are the position. That code compiles but it doesn't show the variable on the window?
A different way is acceptable as well. Thanks.

Look up sprintf

I have and tried it but always get these errors:

passing `const TCHAR *' as argument 1 of `sprintf(char *, const char *, ...)' discards qualifiers

passing `int' to argument 2 of `sprintf(char *, const char *, ...)' lacks a cast

But I'm pretty sure the way I have seen it done before was using sprintf or some similar function. This is what I passed to sprintf: for the buffer to receive the formatted string I used a variable of type LPCTSTR, TextOut accepts that kind of variable, and the second argument of sprintf I passed my int variable that needs formatting. I just used NULL for the last argument. Thanks for the suggestion though.

sprintf() updates the contents of the first parameter, thus it cannot be declared as const. It expects a formatting string as the second argument, not an integer.

char SomeBuffer[20];
int SomeNumber = 5;
sprintf(SomeBuffer, "%d", SomeNumber);

Thank you that answered my question and solved my problem.