ca**@davissd.com wrote:
I will be in charge of maintaining a VC6 written application, and I
have Visual Studio 2005.
They have sent a few 'compilable' programs to me and when I put them in
VS2005 there's all kinds of errors. Some include,but not limited to:
right side of = must be l-value
strcpy is deprecated, use strcpy_s (and all the rest of them)
My question is: Can I (and how to) set up the Visual Studio 2005 to
generate/compile/link .c and .cpp files like it would if it were VC6.
I am using VS 2003, and I just import the .dsw files directly into a
"solution", and it puts the compiler into some old compatibility mode
(which is very strange because the version gets detected as if the
compiler were the older version, and it reproduces all the old compiler
bugs) and everything seems to work fine.
Those messages look like they *must* be warnings. I.e., you should be
able to dial down the warning level do make it so that they still
compiler (in VS 2003, its project->properties->C/C++->General->Warning
Level). The business about strcpy() almost certainly must be
ignorable. If not, then I would say that Microsoft has just decided
not to support the old code any more (which seems unlikely, unless they
have gone completely insane).
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Paul Hsieh
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