Visual studio: question about linking functions between two projects

Question

I guess this is a newbie question, but anyway. I\'ve got a solution composed of two projects (1 DLL and 1 console app). The console app includes some headers from the DLL projec

Answer 1

I'm going to guess you use Visual Studio and don't know about dllexport.

Visual Studio by default does not export the names of your functions on the outside of your DLL. To do so you need to tell it that explicitly:

__declspec(dllexport) void f() {...}

and on the side of the one using the DLL:

__declspec(dllimport) void f();

That way the second one will use the imported function and the first will export it.

Answer 2

Make sure that the dll project is a dependency for the console app (right-click on the console project in the solution explorer and select project dependencies)..

Then, in the console project properties under configuration properties->linker->general, ensure that 'Link Library Dependencies' is set to yes.