[vtk-developers] Visual Studio 8 "insecure method" warnings

[William A. Hoffman]

For CMake, we do this, in the top level cmakelist file:

# Disable deprecation warnings for standard C functions.
IF(CMAKE_COMPILER_2005)
  ADD_DEFINITIONS(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE)
ENDIF(CMAKE_COMPILER_2005)


At 05:30 PM 2/15/2006, David Gobbi wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>The VC++ 8.0 compiler warns about methods like strcpy, sscanf, sprintf,
>because they lead to insecure code.  The microsoft documentation on the
>issues is here:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/SafeCandC/default.aspx
>though we can't use their microsoft-specific solution.
>
>I have modified the VTK .h files so that packages can be built against
>VTK without these warnings showing up, and will be checking in the
>changes tomorrow morning.  The vtkSetString() macro in vtkSetGet.h was
>the main offender.
>
>There are plenty of uses of strcpy in the .cxx files, too.  I've added
>a bug report (#2889) to cover this.
>
>- David
>
>
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