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Hello,
I have a C++ project and I would like to treat my warnings as errors (/W4 /WX).
My project has various dependencies on various libraries (using vcpkg), and for some reason warnings from their headers are shown during compilations.
First of all, I absolutely don't care about these warnings - they are external libraries, as long as they work fine I am not going to rewrite them, I only care about warnings related to my code.
Second, because the Error List is flooded with these "false positives", it is difficult to find actual warnings related to my code.
Lastly, I cannot compile my project because of warnings in external libraries and I am treating warnings as errors.
How can I tell Visual studio to stop doing that?
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In your project properties, see the settings under C++, External Includes.
Awesome, thank you!
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Is there an updated solution to this? I've searched high and low and can't find that option anywhere at all..... The only other thing I can think of is maybe it's because this is an Unreal Engine project I'm working on.
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The options in the UI are these compiler command line options:
/analyze:external-
/external:anglebrackets
/external:W2
I can't find that "External Includes" option anywhere. I've checked under properties for the project, the solution, I've even gone into the regular Options menu and I can't find that setting anywhere.
I appreciate that, which I why I pointed out that they're just setting command line options for the compiler. Presumably you'd need to set those in your project's makefile?
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This is for the regular C++ project items. If you are using a makefile project of some type then this needs to be added to the makefile.
Just adding /external:anglebrackets and /external:W1 or similar is all that is needed.