I am using the BRIEF descriptor in OpenCV in Visual C++ 2010 to match points in two images. In the paper about the BRIEF-descriptor is written that it is possible to speed up things: "The BRIEF...

I'm creating a dialog with the resource editor of Visual C++. When I run the test button of the editor, components of the dialog are displayed with a modern look, while when running the applicati...

Is there an equivalent of the GNU "strip" tool for Windows? I'd like to strip out the names of any internal symbols from a static library, so that running dumpbin /symbols mylib.lib will no longer...

is there a way to find a USB device with specified VID and PID on windows without involve calling to WDK functions?

The following code compiles with g++ 14.2 and clang++ 18.1, but fails with MSVC 17.10. class Base { public: using peak = Base; Base() = default; }; class Derived : public Base { protected: usin...

Consider following code: #include <variant> class A {}; class B {}; template<typename... Ts, typename Variant> bool constexpr is_of(const Variant& variant) { return std::visit( ...

I am having a hard time to make out whether the command line tool cl.exe is what people refer to when they are talking about "the MSVC compiler". Are the two the same thing or do you use cl to con...

The code below behaves incorrectly. When f<0> or f<5> is called, it prints as if k = true, but the if statement behaves as if k = false. When f<1> is called, it does the opposite....

For code: #if defined(FOO) && FOO(foo) #error "FOO is defined." #else #error "FOO is not defined." #endif MSVC 19.38 prints: <source>(1): warning C4067: unexpec...

Is there some function like GCC's __builtin_constant_p() for Microsoft Visual Studio? As I understand, the function returns non-zero if the argument is constant, like a string literal. In the answ...

I am trying to run a function in Excel from a dll made via C++. I have followed the steps in the Microsoft DLL creation overview and successfully gotten the DLL/client example working. I've also fo...

If debug information is stored in a program database (not as part of an executable), is there any reason not to always build with it (e.g., MSVC's /Zi)? In CMake, the default configurations are, ...

Recently I installed the latest Visual Studio 2022 v17.10 to build my programs, and initially all went well. But after some other program installation, my programs started failing immediately on st...

I have a solution (available on Git at this link) including one project (producing a DLL library) and a native unit test. Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 with VC++ On Windows 10 The structure of ...

Simplified program as follows struct S { S() {} S(const S &) {} S(S &&) = delete; }; S x; S y = false ? S() : x; is accepted just fine by GCC and Clang, but the latest Visual Studi...

I have a solution in C:\full path here\VS2010\blender.sln This solution contains many projects(around 100). When I compile them, they all work fine. I can run them without any problem, and (quite)...

This is the CMake output: -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.30319.1 -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.30319.1 -- Eclipse version is set to 3.6 (Helios). Adjust CMAKE_ECLI...

I have just upgraded Visual Studio 2022 to the latest version 17.10, and found that my program using CUDA v12.0 does not compile because of the error in NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.0\incl...

I'm working on a project that requires me to compile C++ code using MSVC, but I am working mostly with VSCode. As such, I was wondering if there is a way for me to add the Developer Powershell as a...

I am trying to install Visual C++ Build Tools. But while installing I keep getting this error during setup A setup package is either missing or damaged I even tried copying respective package from...

My program adds float arrays and is unrolled 4x when compiled with max optimizations by MSVC and G++. I didn't understand why both compilers chose to unroll 4x so I did some testing and found only ...

Microsoft Visual C++ Express does not include the built-in resource editor that comes with the professional versions. Are there any good, free, alternatives out there that let you visually edit tho...

I'm trying to convert the string produced from the __DATE__ macro into a time_t. I don't need a full-blown date/time parser, something that only handles the format of the __DATE__ macro would be gr...

I have a file in my project which contains the project version number. I have to make the content of this file available as a preprocessor definition in my code. What I need is to somehow pass the...

I'm making my application thread-safe. One of the steps is to synchronize access or eliminate usages of global variables. I'm using Visual Studio. I can't find any good way to find all global varia...