On 8/3/2011 3:17 PM, Jeffrey Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to troubleshoot this problem myself, but do not seem to be making progress, and I'm hoping someone on the list can provide a suggestion for how to resolve an error I'm seeing with PCRE.
>
> I've got my program project compiling to the x64 target platform, and I compiled PCRE for x64 (or at least, I tried to - I used CMake to configure the project, and told CMake to use the Visual Studio 2008 64-bit tool set, when prompted).
>
> I copied the pcred.lib file from the pcre/bin/Debug folder in my Visual Studio project, over to the output directory for my other program project, then I configured the properties for the test program's Project like so:
>
> Linker->General->Additional library directories: (path/to/output/directory)
> Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies: pcred.lib
>
> When I try to build the test program, I am getting errors:
>
> Error 2 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_free Test_PCRE.obj Test_PCRE
> Error 3 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_exec referenced in function main Test_PCRE.obj Test_PCRE
> Error 4 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_pcre_compile referenced in function main Test_PCRE.obj Test_PCRE
> Error 5 fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals C:\Users\schmidtj\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\LSAPITest\bin\Debug\Test_PCRE.exe Test_PCRE
>
> Any ideas of how I might resolve this? I realize this is more of a Visual Studio problem than a PCRE problem, but perhaps some of you may be familiar enough with VS to know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Schmidt
> Seapine Software, Inc
> http://www.seapine.com
I can offer only this bit:
Did you build pcretest.exe and run RunTest.bat?
If so and all is well, take a look at the pcredemo program and
documentation, possibly in your Test_PCRE program you need to #define
PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h
Regards,
Sheri
