In visual studio how to include all .libs in a folder

Question

I am trying to build a project with another project. There are a lot of libs in there and I am not sure where the required unreferenced symbols are present.

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Answer 1

bigD's answer is right.

The place you would actually do this, in VS 2012 at least, is by right-clicking on the project, then going:

Properties > Configuration Properties > Linker > Command Line > Additional Options

In that box, you would just type:

"[libFolder]\*.lib"

You can have multiple locations by separating locations with a space, like so:

"[libFolder1]\*.lib" "[libFolder2]\*.lib"

Answer 2

You should just be able to write "someFolder/*.lib" where you have to specify the libraries to link against

Answer 3

This will output a file will all .lib files listed. You can copy and paste this or modify it according to your needs.

Save as a batch.

for %%f in (*.lib) DO echo|set /p=%%~f >> alllibs.txt 

Answer 4

AFAIK there is no way to do that: your options are to

• include each lib in the linker->Input->Additional Dependencies

• include libs via pragma directive in the source file i.e. add

pragma comment(lib, "some_lib.lib" )

• if the projects are part of the solution, you can select them as "Project Dependencies"

The easiest way to do it is to use the pragma since you only have to do it once for both debug and release. For example, you could do a directory listing of your lib directory and then copy and past the remainder of the directive into your source file(s).

Further, to get a symbol listing of a static library, you can run the dumpbin tool on the lib files (AFAIR with the /ALL option).

Answer 5

Though you are in Visual Studio, if you go with command line, you can put all the libs in a linker response file and reference it as a standalone option with a @ during link phase.

Unfortunately, according the above link,

This linker option is not available from the Visual Studio development environment.