I have a solution with two projects cira_lib and md5_test. One project (cira_lib) is a central library that compiles into a DLL. Another project (md5_test) is exe with cira_lib dependency. When I create md5_test, it first creates cira_lib, so I know that the project dependencies are running. However, when VC ++ connects to md5_test, it returns with a linker error:
1> win32_cira.vcxproj -> C:\Users\ale-xps\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\win32_cira\Release\cira_lib.dll 2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: md5_test, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ 2> MD5Test.cpp 2>MD5Test.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > __cdecl getTimeChkSum(void)" ( ?getTimeChkSum@ @ YA?AV?$basic_string@DU ?$char_traits@D @ std@ @ V?$allocator@D @ 2@ @ std@ @XZ) 2>C:\Users\ale-xps\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\win32_cira\Release\md5_test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
The "Unresolved External Character" that you see is a function in one of the class files "Utils.cpp" in the cira_lib project. So, it seems to me that Visual Studio needs me to follow some additional steps to see Object files from cira_lib? I thought that by making “addiction” everything that would automatically take care of me?
I want md5_test to dynamically bind to cira_lib ... but I think Microsoft requires you to at least link to the stub.LIB file during the link, even if you "Perform dynamic linking, right?
So do I need to add the cira_lib Release directory to md5_test "Library Directories" and add cira_lib.lib to the md5_test "Linker Entry"?
The header file that I export is as follows
__declspec( dllexport ) string getTimeChkSum( );
and implementation file
__declspec(dllexport) string getTimeChkSum( ) {...}
Even after adding these directives and restoring everything, my exe project still cannot see these characters.
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