Is it possible to install the tchar.h library on macOS?

Question

C++ / C#

To study, you need to use the tchar.h library on macOS (the rest of the group uses windows, so they have no problems). Is it possible to install it, and if so, how?

Answer 1

tchar.h is not a library, it is one of the header files included with the Microsoft C Runtime Library. Accordingly, it is only available on Windows. You just need Windows. Here's what can be done.
Free option. Install VirtualBox, create a Microsoft account, sign up for the Windows Insider Program (this is the Windows public beta testing program), you will be able to download and install an experimental build of Windows. I would not recommend for regular use, but for your training purposes it will do. Next, create a virtual machine in VirtualBox, install Windows into it, enter your Microsoft account during installation. Next, install in Windows Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, in the installer, be sure to select something like "Desktop C ++ Workload". Next, launch the studio and also enter your Microsoft account - this gives a free license to the Community Edition studio. And enjoy your health.
Paid alternatives - for some money you can start a cloud server with Windows in Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Alibaba Cloud services - study the prices and choose where it is cheaper. So that at least somehow more or less it was possible to work, and not always "slow down", at least 2 percent and 4GB of memory, better than 8GB (by the way, this also applies to the VM option described above). If you do not keep the server turned on all the time, then a lot of money will not come in. After your course has ended and you no longer need the server, you can delete it completely (when the server is turned off, a fee is also charged, usually relatively small, for a virtual hard disk). Share using Remote Desktop (but this is on Windows, I'm sure there are analogues on the poppy).