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POVisual C++ 2005 doesn't add /dll argument for linker
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    copied!<p>What setting(s) in a Visual Studio 2005 project could cause the build to not add the /dll argument to the linker command line?</p> <p>Background:</p> <p>We have a large VC6 project that I'm porting over to VC 2005. This project contains a number of MFC extension DLLs, and I'm running into the following linker warning when I run a build:</p> <p>warning LNK4086: entrypoint '_WinMainCRTStartup' is not __stdcall with 12 bytes of arguments; image may not run</p> <p>The reference to _WinMainCRTStartup is highly suspicious, because this is a DLL (which shouldn't have a _WinMainCRTStartup function at all). A search for of the sources indicate that there is no such function defined, so my conclusion is that it it being provided to us by the linker.</p> <p>Review of the linker.exe command line arguments shows the problem (I've removed full paths for brevity):</p> <p>/OUT:"Debug\thedll.dll" /INCREMENTAL /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"Debug\thedll.dll.intermediate.manifest" /DEF:".\thedll.def" /DEBUG /PDB:"\Debug\thedll.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X86 version.lib</p> <p>There is a highly critical command line argument missing: /DLL</p> <p>If I manually add this argument (using the project properties, Configuration Properties\Linker\Command Line settings), I can get things to compile properly.</p> <p>But I'm wondering what in the project configuration is causing the /DLL command line setting of linker.exe to be left out?</p> <p>I've created a temporary project with an extension DLL, and I've done side-by-side comparisons of the .vcproj files, but I can not see any specific settings that would impact this.</p> <p>EDIT - I've checked the Configuration Properties\General\Project Defaults setting for Configuration Type. It is set to Dynamic Library (.dll)</p> <p>EDIT2 - Apparently, VS was ignoring the setting until I manually adjusted it. rggggg</p>
 

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