My background is C# but I have to maintain some legacy (MS) C++. In that codebase I stumpled across:
#pragma comment(lib, "OtherLib700.lib")
where 700 is some versioning. Besides the lib is a DLL with the same name.
I first thought that the program would be dependant upon the DLL but after removing it from the system the program still works. There exists a newer version of the DLL, though, which is named OtherLib900...
It seems as though the program 'included' the code of the lib so that it's no longer dependant upon the external DLL. (Or that the program 'automatically' uses the newer DLL...)
Which one is correct? Is there are way to further confirm that 'assumption'?
/= Divide AND assignment operator. It divides the left operand with the right operand and assigns the result to the left operand. C /= A is equivalent to C = C / A.
C language supports a rich set of built-in operators. An operator is a special symbol that tells the compiler to perform specific mathematical or logical operations.
It means to perform a bitwise operation with the values on the left and right-hand side, and then assign the result to the variable on the left, so a bit of a short form.
That pragma
is used to link against the specified .lib
file. This is an alternative to specifying the library in the external dependencies field in project settings.
Mostly, it's used to support different versions:
#ifdef USE_FIRST_VERSION #pragma comment(lib, "vers1.lib") #else #pragma comment(lib, "vers2.lib") #endif
When your application uses a dynamically-linked library, a lib
file tells you information about what symbols are exported in the dll
. So basically you only need the lib
to compile & link, but you need the dll
to run the program, as it contains all the binary code.
You say there's an associated dll
, which usually indicates the lib
file only contains linking info, and no code. You should get a run-time error if the associated dll
was not found. You can check with MSVS if a different version of the dll
was loaded or if it was loaded from a different place.
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