Is this a Visual Studio 2005 generated LIB file?

Visual Studio is notoriously bad for supporting LIB files generated with a
different Visual Studio version, especially LIBs for DLLs.

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:54:29 -0400, Eddie Lascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Hello Experts,
>
>I have this third party .dll that was developed in Visual C++ 6.0. I have
>the ".lib" file and also some header files to include in my project. I am
>trying to wrap it into a Managed C++ Class Library developed in Visual
>Studio.NET 2005. I picked Managed C++ because I read the interoperation is
>easier from C++ than C# or VB.NET.
>Anyway, I am getting linkage errors for virtually every call into the
>library (LNK2028 paired with LNK2019). I have linked the ".lib" file and
>made sure the ".dll" file is found in the local folder, but I still get
>these linkage errors.
>This library is quite old and I had to make some changes in the header
files
>to make them compile. I read about the myriad of compilation/linkage
>directives and I am at loss with them.
>
>Are there any web recourses to guide me through all the steps that need to
>be followed to get this to compile and link?
>Any suggestion will be appreciated,

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