Re: LNK2001 but symbol is found in import lib
"chhenning" wrote:
Thanks Alex, I know the linker is a stupid string matching
program. My
symbol to look for is:
?mysql@SOCI@@3UMySQLBackEndFactory@1@B
In my lib there is this:
__IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR_mysql__NULL_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR__imp_?mysql@SOCI@@3UMySQLBackEndFactory@1@B
Do you think the _imp_ prefix might be the problem?
I don't know how did you get this symbol, because when I
output exports with "DUMPBIN /EXPORTS Test.lib" command,
then it doesn't show _imp_ prefix. Also, output of "/EXPORT"
switch shows both decorated and undecorated names.
In my application I reference the object using:
const SOCI::BackEndFactory &backEnd = SOCI::mysql;
In the lib header I have:
extern SOCI_MYSQL_DECL MySQLBackEndFactory const mysql;
// inside
SOCI namespace
which references an object defined in one of the cpp files
defined by:
MySQLBackEndFactory const SOCI::mysql;
Is above definition within `SOCI' namespace, as well? If I
understabnd correctly, `MySQLBackEndFactory' struct is
declared within `SOCI' namespace, too. Otherwise above
statement won't compile.
I think it has to be this this way.
Everything looks OK. I tried to reproduce your problem with
simple EXE/DLL project. However, everything compiles and
links without any error.
Alex
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