How to work with third-party C ++ libraries LNK4099 Warning in VisualStudio

Question

I have a Visual Studio C ++ project where I use the layout linker

/WX (TreatWarningsAsLinkerErrors=true)

In Debug, I am compiling with / Zi (Debug Database), which works fine.

Now I have a third-party SDK that comes with a static library, but not with a .pdb file. As soon as I link this file in Debug, I get

LNK4099: 3rd-party.lib(3rd-party.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB "vc90.pdb" was not found "3rd-party.lib(3rd-party.obj)" or with "C:\OutDir\vc90.pdb"

Please note that this message is misleading since placing vc90.pdb next to 3rd-party.lib does not solve the problem, because the source code and pdb of this third-party library are not available, so the linker is still complaining.

To get rid of this linker warning, what are my options?

Answer 1

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