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Visual Studio 2017 Does not link exe and output to the specified directory
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Moussa Bayou
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Hello,
As the title suggests, I recently set up VS2017 for C programming, installed everything I need, even the Intel compilers.I created a new project with all the include files, libraries and set up the folders to the latter in properties.
That aside, the code in the source directory does compile successfully (previously did compile on VSCode using MinGW gcc),the .obj file is generated but it seems like the linker does not want to output the .exe to its intended directory.
I will attach any necessary files.
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Viorel 118.5K Reputation points2022-03-23T06:49:22.62+00:00 Do you see some suspicious messages in Output window after executing the "Rebuild Solution"?
Maybe the file is removed by some antivirus?
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Moussa Bayou 1 Reputation point
2022-03-23T10:39:33.2+00:00 Build log is attached below
Compiling is successful, it returns this output (cropped it so I won't exceed the character limit, the rest doesn't matter it's only one warning that about a function I can take off, same result):186067-sourcebuildcppclean.log
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Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========While Building Solution results in this message instead:
1>------ Build started: Project: Source, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
1>ipo: : warning #11003: no IR in object file x64\Debug\Source.obj; was the source file compiled with -Qipo
1>ipo: : error #11018: Cannot open glfw3.lib
1>LINK : : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/INCREMENTAL' due to '/LTCG' specification
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1>Starting pass 1
1>LINK : : error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'glfw3.lib'
1>Done building project "Source.vcxproj" -- FAILED.==========
Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== -
RLWA32 46,111 Reputation points2022-03-23T10:43:38.927+00:00 You can't find the executable because one was not created due to the linker error. That's what you need to fix.
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