Migrating vc++6 to .NET

[Dale Bourne]

I'm trying to migrate a VC++6 program to VC++2005.

This program solution consists of projects A, B, and C. Project B
depends on project A, and project C depends on project B. Project B
utilizes a third party library compiled under version 6. I also have a
new version of the library compiled under VS2005. I've tried both
versions, changing the library and include directories, and the
additional dependencies, and get the same compile error. So, I don't
think it has anything to do with the library, must be some difference
in the way version 6 and 8 utilize(?) 3rd party libraries.

The program compiles and functions properly under VC++6. After
correcting errors remaining after conversion process, solution fails
to compile with the following error:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'FixTools.lib': No such
file or directory

The 'include' & 'library' directories are correct in options. The 3rd
party library is listed as Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies.

The only changes I've made to the code are correcting errors due to
stricter type checking, changes in some library calls, etc..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[David Lowndes]

fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'FixTools.lib': No such

file or directory

That's strange - you've got a compiler error referring to a .lib file
as though it's a .cpp file. It sounds to me as though something's
caused you to have a corrupted project.

Dave

 

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

That's strange - you've got a compiler error referring to a .lib file
as though it's a .cpp file. It sounds to me as though something's
caused you to have a corrupted project.

Yeah, lib files aren't used by the compiler, but by the linker. Did someone
type

#include "FixTools.lib"

?

 

[Dale Bourne]

That's strange - you've got a compiler error referring to a .lib file
as though it's a .cpp file. It sounds to me as though something's
caused you to have a corrupted project.

Dave

Yeah, I felt that was strange, but, I am QUITE new to the .NET scene
and thought that maybe it was some new way VS handled libs.

Dale

 

[Dale Bourne]

Yeah, lib files aren't used by the compiler, but by the linker. Did someone
type

#include "FixTools.lib"

?

After grep'ing the entire source tree, nothing like that was found.
Guess I'll start over with original source and be more observant of
the conversion.

Thanks guys.

Dale

 

[H Brydon]

That's strange - you've got a compiler error referring to a .lib file
as though it's a .cpp file. It sounds to me as though something's
caused you to have a corrupted project.

Dave

Not true - you can include .lib files in the project and set up the project
to link to them. It works correctly. I am at home now and can't provide
the setup details offhand but we do that all the time for almost every
..vcproj at work.