error MSB8031

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Garima Gupta H2

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I have Visual Studio 2019 installed on my machine with
C++ v14.24 MFC for v142 build tools (x86 & x64)

C++ v14.24 ATL for v142 build tools (x86 & x64)

I am attempting to build an legacy application but I am getting the following error:


MSB8031 Building an MFC project for a non-Unicode character set is deprecated. You must change the project property to Unicode or download an additional library. See MFC MBCS DLL Add-on for more information.


When this error occurs it directs me to a help page which encourages me to get the MFC MBCS DLL Add-on, but this is only available for Visual Studio 2013, not Visual Studio 2019 and will not install.


Changing the Character set to Multibyte isn't working but I need to stay with multibyte character set. Please suggest.

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