C++: How to encrypt strings at compile time?

Question

I want to hide some strings in my .exe so people can\'t simply just open the .exe and look at all the strings there. I don\'t care about the strength of the encrypting metho

Answer 1

You can't encrypt strings (string literals) by С++ compiler or preprocessor, but you can write a pre-build tool which will parse your source code, and encrypt strings.

Or, you can try to use boost::mpl::string.