-// (2) You should link with MFC DLL, not static libraries
-
-// suppress warning about WINVER not being defined from MFC
-#ifndef WINVER
-#define WINVER 0x7000
-#endif
+// (2) You should link with MFC DLL, not static libraries: or, to use static
+// run-time libraries, use this command for both building wxWidgets and
+// the sample:
+//
+// 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