How to eliminate Warning LNK4221?

Question

I am working on a project using c++/windows forms (visual studio 2010), we have 4 projects:

• 1 project containing GUI windows forms {managed code} and this is the

Answer 1

Disclaimer: This solution is indeed terrible, and this code should not be added to production build! It is only useful to "hide" the warning.

A better solution would be to remove the file in question from the compilation, as it is anyway useless.

Original post:

I had a the problem with this warning originating from several dependencies, and I found that it was caused by some translation unit being empty, i.e. empty source files.

These files actually had a content but it was deactivated for visual studio so I just added at the beginning:

__declspec( dllexport ) void getRidOfLNK4221(){}

And now my project compiles without any warning :)

Hope it helps, even if this is a late answer!