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This article was published on September 16, 2002 and last updated on December 04, 2006.

Introduction

You can use Prof-UIS in a range of projects that vary by:

• type of the target binary code (an executable application or DLL/ActiveX)
• character set (ANSI, MBCS or Unicode)
• type of linking (your application or DLL/ActiveX can be linked with Prof-UIS dynamically or statically and MFC itself can be linked with your application dynamically or statically)
• compiling configuration (debug or release)
• type of target platform (Win32 or x64)

It is not possible to compile the Prof-UIS source code under some ideal settings so that you would use one or two Prof-UIS lib/dll modules universally. Because of that, there are 36 project configurations supported in Prof-UIS at the moment (see Supported Project Configurations).

Naming Convention

The name of each Prof-UIS library file follows this naming convection:

Supported Project Configurations

The following table lists the supported project configurations and corresponding library files. You can find configurations 1-12 in the ProfUISDLL project. After compiling the library using any of these configurations, you will get two files with .lib and .dll extensions, which you can further use in your project. All the static configurations 13-36 are defined in the ProfUISLIB project.

Please note that the Prof-UIS libraries that are used in executable applications can also be used in extension DLLs and the libraries used in regular DLLs can also be used in ActiveX projects.

* Configuration name can be preceded by Win32 or x64, which specifies the target platform.

How to choose the appropriate configuration

Before compiling Prof-UIS, you should choose which build configurations meet your requirements. In any case, you will have to use not less than two configurations: one for debugging your application (a debug configuration) and one for producing the final version (a release configuration).

For example, let us say you want to create a Prof-UIS-based application like as follows:

• It should be executable.
• It should be localized to different languages including Asian and Middle Eastern languages.
• It should use both Prof-UIS and MFC as DLLs.

There are only two configurations in the table of configurations that meet these requirements: Unicode Release and Unicode Debug. By knowing that configurations 1-12 are defined in the ProfUISDLL project, you should compile the library source code using these two configurations of this project. As a result, you will get the following four files you can use in your project:

• ProfUIS262u.lib and ProfUIS262u.dll
• ProfUIS262ud.lib and ProfUIS262ud.dll

If, for instance, you decide your project should use both Prof-UIS and MFC statically, compile the library using the ProfUISLib project under the Static Unicode Release and Static Unicode Debug configurations. As you can see, it is really easy to select and build the needed library configurations.