ANSI and Unicode Libraries

You can use CVL in either ANSI or Unicode mode and all libraries are provided in both ANSI and Unicode versions. The Unicode versions of CVL libraries use the Unicode versions of MFC. For more information about using Unicode with CVL see Localization Issues.

CVL library names use the suffix scheme shown below to denote the purpose of the library.

CVL library naming scheme

Appended letter

Library purpose

none

ANSI 32-bit release

_x64

64-bit release

d

ANSI debugging

u

Unicode release

ud

Unicode debugging

CVL Libraries for Visual C++ .NET 2012, 2013, and 2015 shows example library names to clarify this naming scheme.

The libraries actually installed may vary with different CVL releases and with options specified during installation.