Upgrading from MSVC 6 to MSStudio 2005 error
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I'm trying to compile my MSVC 6 project in Studio 2005. I fixed everything up to the point I get this linker error:
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'stlport_vc6_static.lib'
Obviously my MSVC 6 project was using stlport. But how does Studio know that? It's a fresh studio install. Stlport isn't referenced anywhere in my project (I did a search for "stlport" in my workspace and source directory to be sure). I assume the stlport include files tell the linker to link with stlport, so if I'm not linking to any stlport include files (haven't added them to the studio include or lib directories) why is it thinking it needs the stlport library?
The obvious answer is to figure out stlport for Studio, but I'd like to know why this error is happening so I know how to fix it should it crop up in the future.
If you didn't use #pragma comment( lib, "...lib" ) in the source-code then it has to be from the project file and got imported to the vcproj-file.
Otherwise Visual Studio could not have any idea that it needs that stlport library.
If you used the basic windows search to find it you may have fallen for the default indexing setting in XP: By default a lot of extensions are NOT searched. You have to enable that setting first (it's hidden in the indexing service; even when you've disabled indexing, the setting will affect your search results).
Otherwise Visual Studio could not have any idea that it needs that stlport library.
If you used the basic windows search to find it you may have fallen for the default indexing setting in XP: By default a lot of extensions are NOT searched. You have to enable that setting first (it's hidden in the indexing service; even when you've disabled indexing, the setting will affect your search results).
Maybe your visual studio 2005 install took the include paths
from visual studio 6 (so it's still pointing at your stlport
directory which will then automatically include stlport_???.lib
which it can't find because you only have an stlport built with
vc6)?
from visual studio 6 (so it's still pointing at your stlport
directory which will then automatically include stlport_???.lib
which it can't find because you only have an stlport built with
vc6)?
Author
How would I check for something like that? I know it's stlport isn't listed anywhere in the include or lib directories you usually need to set up for 3rd party libraries.
Author
I clicked "clean". I haven't actually physically looked if there are intermediate build files still floating around. Let me try that.
Oh, BTW.. all the .libs that your project is using are fair game, too. If one of them wants STLPort, it'll cause that error.
Author
It might be one of the libraries I have that you have to build from source before you can use. I didn't think about that. Let me try recompiling it with Studio.
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