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I have to compile one executable on Windows, the first time. I’m using visual studio 2003 and want the equivalent of a command line macro definition.
What’s the VS equivalent of g++ -Dthismacro=1?
Update
For VS 2003, I found it this way. Right clicking on the project, I go to “Properties”. From there, it’s Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions
since you seem to be coming from a linux-flavor, why not use the commandline: the argument for macro definition is actually the same, except the compiler executable is cl and not g++:
although the documentation says the convention is to use /D, most (all?) arguments can be used with the – switch.
When using visual Studio, you can verify this: if you add a preprocessor symbol the way earlz suggested, this can be seen as /D”thismacro=1″ option under Configuration->C/C++->Command Line