can tws c++ api be run on window 10?

my current bot was written on xp and visual studio 6. recently I plan to upgrade to window 10. so I downloaded visual c++ 2019, which can not compile the sample code downloaded from interactivebrokers. I tried to run those sample codes in visual 2012, 2013, 2015,2017, none of them solved the problem. I remember I successfully ran the sample under visual c++ 2017 on window 7, but still with tons of warnings. window 7 is out of support from microsoft, so anyone successfully ran tws c++ api on window 10?

c++ is so hard to maintain, every several years, the new version of ide can not compile prior version. instead, I had a large java project which I wrote in 2019-2020, it can still compile and run as 20 years ago. on the other hand, it is hard to understand other people's c++ codes, while java is much better to understand. people have stereotype notion that java runs slower , so traders tend to choose c++ for the sake of speed. but it is not anymore. I did test comparing java and c++ on scientific computations, java is faster.

 

If you are asking these questions... good luck my friend, you are going to need it

 

The IB API is available in several programming languages, including Java or even Python. You can compile the C++ API in VS, but not without some modifications.

 

typo. The large java project I finished was back in 1999-2000.

 

Were you able to compile on win10?

 

Don't upgrade windows 10 has tons of bloatware and very difficult to turn off updates which will kill your trading server during the most critical times

 

Yes, but that was some years ago. VS2015 and VS2017 iirc. I've now switched to Python, which I totally recommend you unless you have to perform very complex/long computations in very short timeframes.

Try the Python or Java API, whatever you feel more comfortable with, but Python seems to be the way forward in the sector.

 

Maybe it is an issue with your C++ redistributable. The are different versions and a lot of people expect them to be automatically installed.

 

I run it on Windows 7 with VS 2019 and C#. Don’t remember ever having any issues, though last time I probably compiled TWS stuff couple years ago with VS 2017. Now just using that compiled component, but don’t see why it wouldn’t recompile again under VS 2019.
C# should be as fast, if not faster than Java, and has great support and constantly evolving libraries and components.

 

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