-// (3) I can't get the sample to link using a static MFC library, only the DLL
-// version. Perhaps someone else is a wizard at working out the required settings
-// in the wxWin library and the sample; then debugging the assert problem may be
-// easier.
+// nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=debug SHARED=0 DEBUG_RUNTIME_LIBS=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static all
+//
+// Unless the run-time library settings match for wxWidgets and MFC, you
+// will get link errors for symbols such as __mbctype, __argc, and __argv
+//
+// (3) If you see bogus memory leaks within the MSVC IDE on exit, in this
+// sample or in your own project, you must be using __WXDEBUG__ +
+// WXUSINGDLL + _AFXDLL
+// Unfortunately this confuses the MSVC/MFC leak detector. To do away with
+// these bogus memory leaks, add this to the list of link objects, make it
+// first: mfc[version][u]d.lib
+// - [version] -> 42 or 70 or 80 etc
+// - u if using Unicode
+
+// Disable deprecation warnings from headers included from stdafx.h for VC8+
+#ifndef _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
+ #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
+#endif
+
+// Also define WINVER to avoid warnings about it being undefined from the
+// platform SDK headers (usually this is not necessary because it is done by wx
+// headers but here we include the system ones before them)
+#ifndef WINVER
+ #define WINVER 0x0600
+#endif
+
+#include "stdafx.h"