1.2. Compiling Code

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

  1. Pure console programs that read and write text data

  2. GUI programs using the 32-bit API

  3. GUI programs using MFC

  4. Other programs: DLL code, RPC code, and so on

Appendix A contains information on compiling the first three types of code. The fourth type is covered when the code appears. For example, Chapter 9 on RPCs contains makefiles for using the MIDL compiler and for compiling RPC programs.

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