A basic port of Daggen for Windows machines. Link to original repository here.

• Visual Studio 2019
• Build tools for Visual Studio 2019

You will need to add the pre-processor flag _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS to your project properties. See below for navigation.

Properties>>C/C++>>Preporocessor>>Preprocessor Definitions>> _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

Make sure that you select "All Configurations" from the configuration option and x64 from the Platform option.

Compile in Release mode for x64 platforms.

Daggen uses ctime and fopen. ctime takes a time_t reference as it's argument. For large values of time_t it can cause undefined behaviour. From the ctime description;

This function returns a pointer to static data and is not thread-safe. In addition, it modifies the static tm object which may be shared with gmtime and localtime. POSIX marks this function obsolete and recommends strftime instead. The behavior may be undefined for the values of time_t that result in the string longer than 25 characters (e.g. year 10000)

fopen has been deprecated by Microsoft.

I replaced fopen and ctime with fopen_s and ctime_s respectively. You no longer need to add _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS to your preprocessor definitions.

Once compiled, daggen can be used by navigating your command window to where daggen.exe is located and carrying out the following command;

daggen.exe -n 10 -o test.txt

The .exe name will be whatever you called your Visual studio project. If you called it daggen_win the you will run the following command;

daggen_win.exe -n 10 - o test.txt

• Replace ctime
• Replace fopen