Cannot Open File atls.lib

Question

I have atls.lib in my hard drive, but I can\'t link it into my Visual Studio project. I know that atls.lib is an ATL specific library file, and I have all the ATL files/headers/

Answer 1

This issue started happening to me after a recent VS2019 update I got. I noticed that it was because Spectre Mitigation had been automatically enabled but I didn't have the Spectre Mitigation version of the library.

Installing the Spectre Mitigation version, or disabling Spectre Mitigation are both possible fixes.