How do I create both a .lib file and an .exe file in Visual C++?

Question

I currently have a console project which creates an .exe file; I want it to also create a .lib file so other projects, compiled as DLLs, would be able to call functions from the

Answer 1

You don't "also link a lib", you create a static library project. The latter doesn't call the linker at all -- instead it compiles all your files with cl /c and combines the resulting .objs into a lib using lib.exe.