Visual Studio 2008找不到生成路径中的标头

Question

Edit: I do not understand WHY this fixed the problem, but I added the include and lib directories to Tools>Options>Projects&Solutions>VC++Directories and it built perfectly.

I'm trying to compile a c++ example project distributed by Autodesk in VS 2008.

The error: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'max.h': No such file or directory

Previously when I have encountered this error it has been caused by forgetting to specify the location of a header in Project>Properties>Configuration>C++>General. However, the path is definitely there this time and I can navigate to that directory and open max.h manually.

This project builds a DLL instead of an executable. Could that cause this?

So as an experiment I wrote the complete path for max.h after the #include directive in the source. Compile successful!

Linking failed:
fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'edmodel.lib'

Yes edmodel.lib is located in a directory specified in Project>Properties>Configuration>Linker>General.

Any insight into what might be going on here would be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Make sure right configuration is selected when setting project properties
Make sure you have set correct path in C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories for all configurations (Debug, Release, some custom if you have any...). When path to directory with headers is set properly, you can't have any problems with including them.

2. When using libraries, you have to specify path to these libraries but names of libraries you are going to use as well
You wrote, that you have set Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories . But make sure that you have specified name of library in Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies as well. You should append the name of library at the end: ;edmodel.lib