Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

Appendix A. Compiling the Code in this Book

This book contains hundreds of code listings. You will find that these listings break down into four different categories:

1. Pure- console programs that read and write text data (you can compile these either with the SDK or with Visual C⁺⁺)

2. GUI programs using the 32-bit APIs (you can compile these either with the SDK or with Visual C⁺⁺)

3. GUI programs using MFC (you must compile these using Visual C⁺⁺)

4. Other programs: DLL code, RPC code, and others (you can compile these either with the SDK or with Visual C⁺⁺)

This appendix contains information on compiling the first three types of code using the Win32 SDK or Visual C⁺⁺. The fourth type of code is covered when the code appears. For example, the RPC chapter ...