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This article contains information on how to enable Visual Studio to build a 64-bit non-managed application.Synopsis
Information regarding the use of Visual Studio 2010.Discussion
Enable Visual Studio to build 64-bit
(1) Perform a full installation of Visual Studio 2010 or, during a Custom installation, select the x64 Compilers and Tools check boxes. You can expect to find 64-bit versions of some components, and also use tools that are specific to 64-bit development when performing the full install of Visual Studio 2010.
Explicitly set 64-bit platform
(2) Open Visual Studio 2010
(3) Create solution: File | New | Project
(4) Win32 Console Application (Visual C++)
(5) Define your application settings using the Win32 Application Wizard.
(6) In the Win32 Application Wizard select 'Finish'
(7) Using the Visual Studio Solution Explorer, right click Solution, select 'Configuration Manager'.
(8) Go to 'Active Solution Platform' dropdown, select 'New'.
(9) In the 'New Solution Platform' dialog select 'New' platform 'x64'. Set 'Copy Settings From' to 'Win32'
(10) Click OK.
Create non-managed code application When you create a project and select an application type whose name starts with MFC, ATL, or Win32, you're creating an unmanaged application.
(11) Locate *.cpp under the Source Files - this is expected to be the name given in step #3 - Create Solution
(12) Add code to new source file - copy code from this MSDN page: set::find (STL Samples)
(13) Right click the project | Select Properties
(14) Under C/C++ | Code Generation and in the 'Runtime Library' library and change the option from 'Multi-Threaded Debug DLL' to 'Multi-threaded Debug.'
(15) Select 'ok'
(16) Build (F7)
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