2009.04.08 20:31 "Re: [Tiff] cannot link to my own libtiff.lib", by Christian Henning

Thanks Bob, that was the solution. Unfortunately, for TIFFSetErrorHandler and TIFFSetWarningHandler I still get the linker error. I wonder how the Win32 libtiff binaries are build, since here everything works flawless.

Regards,

Christian

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Christian Henning wrote:
>
>> Hi there, I have compiled the beta3 of libtiff-4.0. As the makefile.vc
>> states, all I have to do is to:
>>
>> nmake /f makefile.vc
>>

>> I did that and everything went ok. Meaning I created a libtiff.lib and >> libtiff.dll. But I cannot link to it. I get the following errors:

>>
>> 1>read_image.obj: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> __imp__TIFFClose referenced in function _wmain
>

> This sounds like a dllimport/dllexport issue. Since libtiff does not > decorate the code with dllimport/dllexport, it seems likely that including

> libtiff/libtiff.def into your project will help.  This will tell MSVC which > functions are exported.

Bob
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