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Are there settings I can adjust in Visual Studio so that it does not compile with any run time library or MFC. I started learning C++ to get away from C#’s .Net, and this is just as bad. When I execute the program in a Windows XP virtual machine I get an error. I can compile without the dependencies in Code::Blocks, but I’m more familiar with VS, and prefer many of it’s features over those of Code::Blocks. If you know of to get past this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You can simply link to the static version of the CRT; just go into the project properties and specify, for the Release configuration, the “Multithreaded (/MT)” CRT instead of the “Multithreaded DLL (/MD)” (you can leave the debug configuration alone, since you’ll run it just on your machine anyway). In this way your executable will depend just from “safe” system dlls; obviously this will make your executable grow quite a bit (for example, a small console application that I needed to work without dependencies grew from ~32 KB to ~200 KB).
If you, instead, just want to go without any standard library, you’ll have to enable the “Ignore default libraries” option (or something like that, among the linker options), but keep in mind that in this way you won’t have almost any facility.