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I inherited a substantial amount of code, including a visual studio project that is supposed to (as best as I can tell) build a .lib file. Visual studio says "... Generating Code... Creating Library... Creating browse information file...", and at the end, it says the build succeeded. In the release/debug folder, it has a bunch of .obj files, but it doesn't have a .lib file. What could I be missing?
Thanks!
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To create a static library project in Visual StudioOn the menu bar, choose File > New > Project to open the Create a New Project dialog. At the top of the dialog, set Language to C++, set Platform to Windows, and set Project type to Library.
To load the LIB file, select File → Load Library..., navigate to the location of your LIB file, select the file, and click Open.
A lib file is just a collection of related obj files, much like putting obj files in a directory. That is essentially what a lib file is, a library of obj files. For a static link, all of the obj files that an executable uses are combined into one file.
Open the Project Properties (right-click the project in Solution Explorer, select 'Properties'). Under 'Librarian', check 'Output File' - that's where the output should go.
If this looks right, try dir /s *.lib in a suitable subdirectory for your project, to see if you can locate the output library by date and time. If you still can't find it, try a clean rebuild (right click project, select 'Rebuild').
For DLLs, a .Lib file is not created if the DLL exports nothing for external usage. I don't think this applies for static lib builds but I would make sure you are exporting something public from your library project source code.
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