argument of type const char* is incompatible with parameter of type “LPCWSTR”

Question

I am trying to make a simple Message Box in C in Visual Studio 2012, but I am getting the following error messages

argument of type const char* is incompat         


        

Answer 1

To compile your code in Visual C++ you need to use Multi-Byte char WinAPI functions instead of Wide char ones.

Set Project -> Properties -> General -> Character Set option to Use Multi-Byte Character Set

I found it here https://stackoverflow.com/a/33001454/5646315