Why am I getting error LNK1104: cannot open file 'glew32.lib'

Question

I've already read many answers that wanted to solve this issue but none of them work. I don't think I'm missing anything:

• Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition
• Target = all configurations, all platforms (active = debug, Win32)
• C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories: H:\\#DEV\\OpenGL\\glew-1.12.0\\include
• Linker > General > Additional Library Directories: H:\\#DEV\\OpenGL\\glew-1.12.0\\lib
• Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies: glew32s.lib (I also tried glew32.lib )
• Path of both files library files (glew32.lib and glew32s.lib): H:\\#DEV\\OpenGL\\glew-1.12.0\\lib\\Release\\Win32 .

I have permission to access the file, I didn't specify a dll since I want to use only the static version. I also tried:

#define GLEW_STATIC

before #include and #pragma comment(linker, "/NODEFAULTLIB:libc.lib") to no avail.

Answer 1

Visual Studio doesn't look into the subfolders of the directories you specified in
Additional Library Directories .

That means that you have to add the exact path where the library is stored
(which would be in your case H:\\#DEV\\OpenGL\\glew-1.12.0\\lib\\Release\\Win32 ).