Additional Library Directories Not Searched

[TheGrimace]

I am running into an issue with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 where adding the location of a directory containing a dll and its lib to the 'Additional Library Directories' property of the project fails to allow the project to see those libraries at build time. However, if I put the libraries in the same directory as the project, there is no problem. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this issue?

Thank you in advance.

[zotric]

Hi

I think where libraries are not part of the project you have to name them explicitly.

So it may also help to consider the following field:
Linker page: Linker/Input/Additional Dependencies.

To locate the environment I've found it useful to set up a new environment variable QTDEV and have this point at the qt installation base.

So my Linker Additional Dependencies line reads:
(Release) $(QTDEV)\lib\qtmain.lib $(QTDEV)\lib\QtGui4.lib $(QTDEV)\lib\QtCore4.lib
(Debug) $(QTDEV)\lib\qtmaind.lib $(QTDEV)\lib\QtGuid4.lib $(QTDEV)\lib\QtCored4.lib
And my C++ General page shows:
(Release) "$(QTDEV)\include\QtCore";"$(QTDEV)\include\QtGui" ;"$(QTDEV)\include";.;"$(QTDEV)\include\ActiveQt"; tmp\moc\release_shared;"$(QTDEV)\mkspecs\win32-msvc2005"
(Debug) "$(QTDEV)\include\QtCore";"$(QTDEV)\include\QtGui" ;"$(QTDEV)\include";.;"$(QTDEV)\include\ActiveQt"; tmp\moc\debug_shared;"$(QTDEV)\mkspecs\win32-msvc2005"

And my Additional Library Directories just has:
$(QTDEV)\lib
But I don't know what this was doing because I have just checked and find that the program links fine without it. Maybe it is a base directory and you then only have to name the files.

Hope this helps a bit.