Two files of the same name give linker error in Visual Studio

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to compile my C++ project, and the linker is barfing on two of my files which have the same name- but they're in completely different directories. How can I make the linker recognize that they are different files?

Answer 1

I believe the problem comes from the fact that all your .obj files are written to the same folder, and so the outputs from compiling those two source files are colliding. I think there are at least two possible solutions:

1. Use a different output directory (build directory) for each input folder
2. Create custom object file names for each (or just one) of your source files

I'm not certain about the first option, but for the second, you should be able to right-click the source file in the solution explorer, select "Properties", and find some configuration setting to over-ride the output (.obj) file created for that source file.