While I try building with the linker option -subsystem:windows,5.1 (just like Casey did)

I get the warning:



To get rid of the warning, I simply had to do 5.10 instead of 5.1. Anyone know what's up with that? The game still built and ran fine, but I'm curious what caused this discrepancy.

EDIT: I am aware that 5.1 may not be the same as 5.10, but I'm not finding much info online about the matter.

This is covered in the stream on day 17. subsystem:5.1 is only allowed on the 32-bit build, so when you're compiling in 64-bit, you want to remove it. I show how to do this in the stream.

- Casey

For more information about Windows XP see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/ar...with-c-in-visual-studio-2012.aspx

Applications targeting the x86 version of Windows XP must specify subsystem version 5.01, and applications targeting x64 must specify version 5.02.

For x86 console applications:
set LINK=/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE,5.01 %LINK%

For x64 console applications:
set LINK=/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE,5.02 %LINK%

Just replace CONSOLE with WINDOWS, because we are not building console app.