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Force Visual Studio only use standard C ++ and don't use platform specific things

I want to write a cross platform algorithm in C ++ with Visual Studio 2013.

Platform-specific API functions ( _beginThread

, strcpy_s

etc.) can inadvertently be used , and when trying to compile on a Mac, results in errors.

Is there a way to force Visual Studio not to use the platform API (only use standard C ++)?

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There are 3 ways to do this to achieve this.



  • Use the #ifdef directive.

    #ifdef _MSC_VER
strcpy_s(str1, str2);
#else
strcpy(str1, str2);
#endif

  • Create an alias for strcpy_s

    .

    #ifdef _MSC_VER
#define strcpy strcpy_s
#endif

  • Add _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS and _SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS to your C ++ preprocessor definition in your Visual Studio project. Only do this if you are 100% sure of what you are doing and using platform agnostic code is fine.

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