When to use the Visual Studio Additional dependencies?

Question

In C++, you got the header files (.h), the (.lib) files and the (.dll) files.

In Visual Studio, you provide the location to search for these files in three different pla

Answer 1

Regarding your Q2...

For 3rd-party libraries, I take advantage of Visual Studio Build Command macro variables $(Platform) and $(Configuration) enter something like this:

Y:\dev3\cpp\cryptopp\cryptopp561\$(Platform)\Output\$(Configuration);...

In this way, you can just enter the same exact line and Visual Studio substitute the macro variables and look in either \cryptopp561\Win32\Output\Release\ or \cryptopp561\Win32\Output\Debug\ depending on which configuration you have active. It doesn't actually save much typing but it helps keep things consistent and accurate.