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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:14:00+00:00

Is there a way to make the msvc compiler as strict as gcc? MSVC

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Is there a way to make the msvc compiler as strict as gcc? MSVC lets me do some pretty crazy things that result in hundreds of errors when I compile in linux.

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    To get started we’d need the version you are on (for MSVC), what sort of errors you hit (compile time, link time or run time) and so on.

    Assuming you are on a relatively current version (MSVC 2008 SP1) and being bugged by compiler errors, I’d suggest the following:

    • Your program’s entry point is called main and not _tmain or WinMain
    • /W4: Treat warnings as errors
    • Remove any function that begins with _ — they are implementation specific
    • No Win32 APIs either
    • No platform specific threading
    • Check if you have same signedness for char
    • How do the two implementations treat wchar_t
    • No Safe Exception Handling or inline assembly magic
    • No COM/MFC either
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