Re: Migrating from VC6 to VS2005
Cartoper wrote:
I checked the Runtime Library over to Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd).
The license module is a static library I wrote that this project uses
that is still compiled with VC6, I have both MTd and MDd versions of
it, so I set this project to link to the MTd version and I am getting
the following errors:
2>EventData.obj : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/EDITANDCONTINUE' due to
'/INCREMENTAL:NO' specification
2>MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR80.dll) : error LNK2005: _free already defined in
LIBCMTD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
2>MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR80.dll) : error LNK2005: _realloc already defined in
LIBCMTD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
2>MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR80.dll) : error LNK2005: _malloc already defined in
LIBCMTD.lib(dbgheap.obj)
2>MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR80.dll) : error LNK2005: _memmove already defined in
LIBCMTD.lib(memmove.obj)
2>MSVCRT.lib(ti_inst.obj) : error LNK2005: "private: __thiscall
type_info::type_info(class type_info const &)" (??
0type_info@@AAE@ABV0@@Z) already defined in LIBCMTD.lib(typinfo.obj)
2>MSVCRT.lib(ti_inst.obj) : error LNK2005: "private: class type_info &
__thiscall type_info::operator=(class type_info const &)" (??
4type_info@@AAEAAV0@ABV0@@Z) already defined in
LIBCMTD.lib(typinfo.obj)
*** VERY IMPORTANT NOTE *** In the original post, I made mention of a
VS2005 project that builds an EXE that DOES work fine. In debug mode,
this project *IS* using the MDd version of the static license module.
In release mode it uses the MT version. I don't recall why the
release is static and the debug is dynamic on this project, but I
believe it was related to these types of issues. Again the licensing
module is compiled with VC6. I do plain to upgrade it, but there are
still other projects that will need to be upgraded first. One step at
a time;)
Cartoper:
If you are linking a static library to your project, both your project and the
library must be built using the same version of the compiler, and the same
settings. You need to recompile your library using VS2005 (or VS2008).
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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