I migrated a VC++ 2008 project to Visual Studio 2015 and now I'm having linking errors with unresolved externals...

I'm using the Unofficial OpenGL SDK, so I put that in the same place where I used to have it when it worked (before I upgraded from Vista), then made sure all the includes were the same (the include directories are a little different in the new version but they all seem to be there correctly for includes and libraries now as far as I can see).

I had to change some code to work with C++11, specifically not specifying the types with make_pair, so I'm not sure if it may be that something else has changed and that's what's causing this or if some settings have just been lost with the migration or what...

When I try to build, it gives me tons of warnings and errors, mostly for glimgD.lib but also a few for glfwD.lib. Not sure if the warnings really matter or if they're indicative of some error-causing problem.

The warnings take the form of:

1>glimgD.lib(ImageFormat.obj) : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol ?c_str@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QBEPBDXZ (public: char const * __thiscall std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::c_str(void)const ) imported

Whereas the corresponding errors look like:

1>glimgD.lib(StbLoader.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > __cdecl std::operator+<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,char const *)" (__imp_??$?HDU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@1@@std@@YA?AV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@0@ABV10@PBD@Z) referenced in function "public: __thiscall glimg::loaders::stb::UnableToLoadException::UnableToLoadException(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &)" (??0UnableToLoadException@stb@loaders@glimg@@QAE@ABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z)

All the include and library directories seem to be there in Properties, and the libs in Additional Dependencies seem to be visible and correct... in fact, it seems to be reading the .lib and not being able to find something that's referenced inside if I'm reading it right?

I took screenshots of the project's properties when it was working (though they shouldn't have changed with the migration anyway, ideally) and it seems like everything is like it's meant to be. Does it look like some kind of version incompatibility or have I probably just missed something?

Have you tryed to clean the build.

I guess those are static libraries built with the 2008 version of the standard library or something like that, or possibly that they or your project are linking to the DLL version of the runtime while the other is linking to the static version. Try looking for new versions from their respective websites built for VS2015.

I guess those are static libraries built with the 2008 version of the standard library or something like that, or possibly that they or your project are linking to the DLL version of the runtime while the other is linking to the static version. Try looking for new versions from their respective websites built for VS2015.

I had to change some code to work with C++11, specifically not specifying the types with make_pair, so I'm not sure if it may be that something else has changed and that's what's causing this or if some settings have just been lost with the migration or what...

Have you tryed to clean the build.

Yeah, I thought of that but nothing.

I guess those are static libraries built with the 2008 version of the standard library or something like that, or possibly that they or your project are linking to the DLL version of the runtime while the other is linking to the static version. Try looking for new versions from their respective websites built for VS2015.

Or if you have the code for that library rebuild it with VS2015

I had a look and sure enough... I did have to build them for VS2008 some time ago, I just forgot. So I guess that's probably the problem...

HOWEVER, it seems the Unofficial OpenGL SDK only has support for VS2008 and VS2010... though I think I saw something when I googled about building for 2010 working for VS2013... so perhaps it also works for 2015, I'll try.

Strange... looks like the SDK hasn't been updated for a long time, despite it seeming to be quite popular. Assuming 0.5.2 is the latest version, but that's the one linked from the sourceforge page so I'm assuming it is.

This has nothing really to do with C++11. It was never a good idea to specify the types with std::make_pair, the whole point of std::make_pair has always been that you don't need to do it since template argument deduction does it for you.

Interesting... could've sworn it didn't work otherwise. Unless I was confusing it with something similar, like std::pair probably. Oh well.

Trying the VS2010 build now...

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Works!

Excellent. I think I just assumed the glsdk folder had come that way rather than having to build it. Maybe there isn't any new version because the 2010 one works, I dunno.

Thanks all.

Try to open vs2015 and in project/properties/Configuration Properties/General try changing the "Platform Toolset" property into Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 first, then lesser.