adding Cascade infrastructure to Visual Studio 2015

Question

I want to use Cascade in Visual studio V.2015. The following is the hello world Cascade program:

#include <cascade/Cascade.hpp>

class Producer : public Component
{
    DECLARE_COMPONENT(Producer);
public:
    Producer(COMPONENT_CTOR) {}
    //----------------------------------
    // Interface
    //----------------------------------
    Output(char, out_ch);
    //----------------------------------
    // Simulation
    //----------------------------------
    void reset()
    {
        m_ch = "Hello World \n";
    }
    void update()
    {
        out_ch = *m_ch;
        if (*m_ch)
            m_ch++;
    }
private:
    const char *m_ch;
};
class Consumer : public Component
{
    DECLARE_COMPONENT(Consumer);
public:
    Consumer(COMPONENT_CTOR) {}
    //----------------------------------
    // Interface
    //----------------------------------
    Input(char, in_ch);
    //----------------------------------
    // Simulation
    //----------------------------------
    void update()
    {
        if (in_ch)
            putchar(in_ch);
    };
};
void main()
{
    Producer producer;
    Consumer consumer;
    consumer.in_ch << producer.out_ch;
    Sim::run(100000);
    Sim::reset();
    Sim::run(100000);
}

The problem is when I run the program. Numerous Linker errors appear, like:

Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > __cdecl getAssertionContext(void)" (?getAssertionContext@@YA?AV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@XZ) referenced in function "protected: virtual void __thiscall Consumer::setParentComponent(class Component *)" (?setParentComponent@Consumer@@MAEXPAVComponent@@@Z)            

I've done the following changes in the project properties in VS:

added the 'cascade-master/include' folder to c/c++->general->additional include directories

added the 'cascade-master/src' folder to Linker->general->additional library directories

I am suspecting that errors are due to undefined input liker dependencies: Linker->input->additional dependencies And I dont know what to add there, I tried cascade.lib but didn't work, any suggestion?

And I have no clue what is the right environment variable and its value. could you help me with this please?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Did you build the static libraries for cascade.lib, descore.lib and zlib.lib? There is a visual studio project that builds those libraries in the repo. After you have built the libraries you need to add them to Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies and add the path to the folder that contains them to Linker->General->Additional Library Directories.

For example,