There is no strsafe.h in MinGW? What to use instead?

Question

Compiling first snippet from here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682499(VS.85).aspx

gives: d:\\!TC\\cpp\\control.cpp:4:21: fatal error: strsafe.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

Answer 1

Download this : it's a header file. Copy it to the path "/mingw/include" folder and it will work thats all

Answer 2

You're using C++, per your tags. The "strsafe" functions are an attempt to make C a tiny bit safer. But C++ is already far safer. Eg the StringCchPrintf function is not nearly as safe as std::osstream .