As was mentioned earlier, we have to create the executable first. It appeared to be a relatively hard task to find a real-life example simple enough to fit the chapter, so the decision was made to take a real-life problem and wrap it with simplistic code. We will write the code for our executable in C and compile with Visual Studio 2017 when on Windows and GCC when on Linux. The code will be as simple as this:
As we may see, the only thing this code is capable of is reading user input as a string into a 128-byte buffer, allocating an internal buffer specifically for the input string, copying the input string there, and printing it from the internal buffer.
Create a new solution in Visual Studio 2017, name it Legacy, and fill the preceding illustrated code to its main.cpp file. Personally, I prefer to use the .c extension when writing in C and set the Compile As...
