How to add LibPEConv to your Visual Studio project

Once you built libPEConv library, adding it to your existing Visual Studio project is easy. This small guide will walk you through all the important steps.

Note, that alternatively you can use a ready-made template project, available here:

• https://github.com/hasherezade/libpeconv_tpl

The template automates the whole process, along with building the library itself.

1. Add libPEConv library to your project

1.1. Add paths for the headers and the lib.

• In Project->Properties->VC++ Directories, set two things:

A) Include Directories (to LibPEConv headers)

B) Library Directories (to the directory where the libpeconv.lib is)

1.2. Add libpeconv.lib to the project dependencies

• In Project->Properties->Linker->Input: Additional Dependencies add libpeconv.lib

2. Make sure that your project uses compatible settings

2.1 Build as Multi-threaded (/MT)

• libPeConv was built as Multi-threaded, so application that use it needs to be built in the same mode (C/C++-> Code Generation -> Runtime Library : Multi-threaded (/MT))

2.2 Use the same character set as libPeConv:

This depends on the options that were set in CMake, here.

• If libPeConv was built in the Multi-byte mode (default), the same mode has to be set in the project that uses it (General-> Character Set : Use Multi-Byte Character Set)

• If libPeConv was built in the Unicode mode (CMake option PECONV_UNICODE was set), the current project should also have Unicode Character Set enabled (Use Unicode Character Set)

3. Include LibPEConv into your project

Once everything is added, you can include libpeconv header to your source code:

#include <peconv.h>

using namespace peconv;