Visual C++: How to disable specific linker warnings?

Add the following as a additional linker option:

 /ignore:4099

This is in Properties->Linker->Command Line


Update 2018-10-16

Reportedly, as of VS 2013, this warning can be disabled. See the comment by @Mark Ransom.

Original Answer

You can't disable that specific warning.

According to Geoff Chappell the 4099 warning is treated as though it's too important to ignore, even by using in conjunction with /wx (which would treat warnings as errors and ignore the specified warning in other situations)

Here is the relevant text from the link:

Not Quite Unignorable Warnings

For some warning numbers, specification in a /ignore option is accepted but not necessarily acted upon. Should the warning occur while the /wx option is not active, then the warning message is still displayed, but if the /wx option is active, then the warning is ignored. It is as if the warning is thought important enough to override an attempt at ignoring it, but not if the user has put too high a price on unignored warnings.

The following warning numbers are affected:

4200, 4203, 4204, 4205, 4206, 4207, 4208, 4209, 4219, 4231 and 4237

(For the record and before the thread disappears on the msdn forums) You can't disable the warning (at least under VS2010) because it is on the list of the warnings that can't be disabled (so /wd4099 will not work), but what you can do instead is patch link.exe (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\link.exe) to remove it from said list . Sounds like a jackhammer, i know. It works though.

For instance, if you want to remove the warning for 4099, open link.exe with an hex editor, goto line 15A0 which reads 03 10 (little endian for 4099) and replace it with FF 00 (which does not exist.)