Last updated 27 November 2006
The simplest way to create a Perfect console application compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (with Service Pack 3 or later) is to copy the file HelloWorld.dsp supplied with Perfect Developer to your project directory, rename it, delete the single .cpp source file in the project and add the .cpp files generated by Perfect Developer to the project. You may need to adjust the paths to the Perfect include files and runtime library.
Note: you should also be able to open the .dsp file using Visual Studio 2005 or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
If you choose to create a project from scratch, create it as a Win32 Console application and change the project settings as follows:
Release configuration
| Tab | Submenu | Change |
| C/C++ | Code generation | Library = Multithreaded DLL Calling convention = fastcall Processor = Pentium Pro |
| C/C++ | Optimization | Inline function expansion = any suitable |
| Link | Input | Object/Library modules: add: version.lib
wsock32.lib PerfectRuntime.lib Additional Library Path: the directory containing the Perfect runtime libraries WITHOUT quotes (e.g. C:\Program Files\PerfectDeveloper\Runtime\Lib\Cpp) |
Debug configuration
| Tab | Submenu | Change |
| C/C++ | Code generation | Library = Debug Multithreaded DLL Calling convention = cdecl |
| Link | Input | Object/Library modules: add: version.lib
wsock32.lib PerfectRuntimeD.lib Additional library path: the directory containing the Perfect runtime libraries WITHOUT quotes (e.g. C:\Program Files\PerfectDeveloper\Runtime\Lib\Cpp) |
Both configurations
| Tab | Submenu | Change |
| C/C++ | General | We recommend Warning level 3. If you are using Perfect Developer version 2.11 or later, you may be able to increase this to Warning level 4. |
| C/C++ | C++ Language | Enable exception handling Enable RTTI |
| C/C++ | Customize | Disable language extensions Add /Zm500 to the Project Options |
| C/C++ | Precompiled headers | Enable Automatic use of precompiled headers through header Ertsys.hpp |
| C/C++ | Preprocessor | Additional include directories: enter the directory containing the Perfect Developer include files (e.g. "C:\Program Files\PerfectDeveloper\Runtime\Include\Cpp") |
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