How to link library in visual studio

Question

I'm trying to create a project in c++ with the SMILE library (http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/index.php/downloads). On the site I downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 / VC 10.0 SP1 version for x64 (I have windows 7 and visual studio 2010 installed). After create a new project, I went to the project properties->configuration->C/C++->directory of additional inclusions and set the path of the folder that contains the library. When I try to compile Iget the error:

1>------ Inizio compilazione: Progetto: IDSS_2013, Configurazione: Debug Win32 ------
1>  stdafx.cpp
1>  AssemblyInfo.cpp
1>  IDSS_2013.cpp
1>  Generazione del codice in corso...
1>  .NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cpp
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: impossibile aprire il file 'smile_dbg.lib'
========== Compilazione: 0 completate, 1 non riuscite, 0 aggiornate, 0 ignorate ==========

The source is the one provided with the example in the documentation:

#include "smile.h"

#include <stdio.h>

void CreateNetwork(void);
void InfereceWithBayesNet(void);
void UpgradeToInfluenceDiagram(void);
void InferenceWithInfluenceDiagram(void);
void ComputeValueOfInformation(void);

int main()
{
 CreateNetwork();
 InfereceWithBayesNet();
 UpgradeToInfluenceDiagram();
 InferenceWithInfluenceDiagram();
 ComputeValueOfInformation();
 return(DSL_OKAY);
};

Solution 1

According to the website:

DO NOT add smile.lib as additional linker input in project settings - smile.h takes care of that.

I imagine that means the smile.h file already includes:

#pragma import smile.lib

Can you check if this is the case?

Solution 2

use #pragma comment to add library or use project settings (linker->input)